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Narice vs Narissa

American parents have registered 784 Narissas since 1880, against 13 Narices. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Narice against Narissa, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Narice Narissa

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 53 years in which either name was published, Narissa for 52 years and Narice for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Narice Narissa
Total US births 13784
Most in one year 1328
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 0770
Median age today 9928
Peak year 19262003
Best rank 2,569th girls4,536th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19261964
Girls / boys 13 / 0784 / 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 Narices alive today are over 99; half the Narissas are over 28. That is 71 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: Narice and Narissa.