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Nazar vs Nazario

American parents have registered 993 Nazarios since 1880, against 617 Nazars. Nazario is still ahead, with 23 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nazar Nazario

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 85 years in which either name was published, Nazario for 67 years and Nazar for 18 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Nazar Nazario
Total US births 617993
Most in one year 3431
Babies in 2025 1923
Estimated living today 610840
Median age today 1122
Peak year 20162021
Best rank 3,293rd boys3,582nd boys
Rank in 2025 5,045th4,396th
First recorded 19771916
Girls / boys 0 / 6170 / 993

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 Nazarios alive today are over 22; half the Nazars are over 11. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Nazar Nazario
France 13515
England and Wales 846

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: Nazar and Nazario.