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Nazar vs Naziyah

American parents have registered 653 Naziyahs since 1880, against 617 Nazars. Naziyah is still ahead, with 138 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nazar Naziyah

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 33 years in which either name was published, Nazar for 24 years and Naziyah for 9 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Nazar Naziyah
Total US births 617653
Most in one year 34138
Babies in 2025 19138
Estimated living today 610650
Median age today 1111
Peak year 20162025
Best rank 3,293rd boys1,534th girls
Rank in 2025 5,045th1,534th
First recorded 19772001
Girls / boys 0 / 617653 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

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: Nazar and Naziyah.