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Naima vs Naiovy

American parents have registered 4,757 Naimas since 1880, against 27 Naiovys. Naima is still ahead, with 94 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Naima against Naiovy, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Naima 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

Naima has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1969 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Naima had 188 and Naiovy had 17.

Side by side

  Naima Naiovy
Total US births 4,75727
Most in one year 30517
Babies in 2025 94under 5
Estimated living today 4,70030
Median age today 1611
Peak year 20072014
Best rank 902nd girls6,987th girls
Rank in 2025 2,017thunranked
First recorded 19692014
Girls / boys 4,757 / 027 / 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 Naimas alive today are over 16; half the Naiovys are over 11. That is 5 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: Naima and Naiovy.