Nara vs Narda
American parents have registered 1,069 Naras since 1880, against 656 Nardas. Nara is still ahead, with 72 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Nara Narda
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 89 years in which either name was published, Nara for 48 years and Narda for 41 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.
- 1909–1933 Nara ahead
- 1937–1971 Narda ahead
- 1976–1994 Nara ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1995–1998 Narda ahead
- 1999–2025 Nara ahead
8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Nara | Narda | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,069 | 656 |
| Most in one year | 72 | 32 |
| Babies in 2025 | 72 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,000 | 550 |
| Median age today | 10 | 62 |
| Peak year | 2024 | 1961 |
| Best rank | 2,491st girls | 2,070th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,458th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1909 | 1937 |
| Girls / boys | 1,052 / 17 | 656 / 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 Nardas alive today are over 62; half the Naras are over 10. That is 52 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Nara California (7.0×), New York (1.7×)
- Narda Texas (6.5×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nara and Narda.