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Namari vs Namon

American parents have registered 1,121 Namons since 1880, against 767 Namaris. But in 2025 it was Namari that was commoner, 127 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Namari against Namon, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Namari Namon

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

Of the 112 years in which either name was published, Namon for 92 years and Namari for 20 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Namari Namon
Total US births 7671,121
Most in one year 19125
Babies in 2025 127under 5
Estimated living today 760490
Median age today 258
Peak year 20251942
Best rank 1,668th boys1,381st boys
Rank in 2025 1,668thunranked
First recorded 20021884
Girls / boys 301 / 4660 / 1,121

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 Namons alive today are over 58; half the Namaris are over 2. That is 56 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: Namari and Namon.