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Narciso vs Narin

American parents have registered 2,078 Narcisos since 1880, against 57 Narins. But in 2025 it was Narin that was commoner, 9 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Narciso against Narin, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Narciso Narin

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 113 years in which either name was published, Narciso for 111 years and Narin for 2 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Narciso Narin
Total US births 2,07857
Most in one year 3410
Babies in 2025 59
Estimated living today 1,30060
Median age today 4537
Peak year 19901985
Best rank 2,128th boys4,052nd boys
Rank in 2025 12,008thunranked
First recorded 18931985
Girls / boys 0 / 2,07825 / 32

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 Narcisos alive today are over 45; half the Narins are over 37. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Narciso Narin
France 5040

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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