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Nazareth vs Nazario

American parents have registered 2,402 Nazareths since 1880, against 993 Nazarios. Nazareth is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nazareth 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 89 years in which either name was published, Nazareth for 47 years and Nazario for 42 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Nazareth Nazario
Total US births 2,402993
Most in one year 15631
Babies in 2025 11723
Estimated living today 2,300840
Median age today 1022
Peak year 20232021
Best rank 1,865th girls3,582nd boys
Rank in 2025 2,514th4,396th
First recorded 19201916
Girls / boys 1,204 / 1,1980 / 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 Nazareths are over 10. That is 12 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 Nazareth Nazario
France 3015
England and Wales 76

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: Nazareth and Nazario.