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Naim vs Naiovy

American parents have registered 2,697 Naims since 1880, against 27 Naiovys. Naim is still ahead, with 97 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Naim against Naiovy, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Naim Naiovy

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Naim has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Naim had 41 and Naiovy had 17.

Side by side

  Naim Naiovy
Total US births 2,69727
Most in one year 13517
Babies in 2025 97under 5
Estimated living today 2,60030
Median age today 1811
Peak year 20232014
Best rank 1,380th boys6,987th girls
Rank in 2025 1,688thunranked
First recorded 19732014
Girls / boys 0 / 2,69727 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Naims alive today are over 18; half the Naiovys are over 11. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Naim and Naiovy.