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Narice vs Nariyah

American parents have registered 2,127 Nariyahs since 1880, against 13 Narices. Nariyah is still ahead, with 130 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Narice against Nariyah, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Narice Nariyah

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 25 years in which either name was published, Nariyah for 24 years and Narice for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Narice Nariyah
Total US births 132,127
Most in one year 13146
Babies in 2025 under 5130
Estimated living today 02,100
Median age today 9910
Peak year 19262010
Best rank 2,569th girls1,529th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,605th
First recorded 19262002
Girls / boys 13 / 02,127 / 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 Nariyahs are over 10. That is 89 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 Nariyah.