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Nazareth vs Naziah

American parents have registered 2,402 Nazareths since 1880, against 507 Naziahs. Nazareth is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nazareth Naziah

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

Nazareth has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1920 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Nazareth had 48 and Naziah had 36.

Side by side

  Nazareth Naziah
Total US births 2,402507
Most in one year 15636
Babies in 2025 11722
Estimated living today 2,300500
Median age today 1014
Peak year 20232010
Best rank 1,865th girls4,974th girls
Rank in 2025 2,514th8,860th
First recorded 19202000
Girls / boys 1,204 / 1,198323 / 184

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 Naziahs alive today are over 14; half the Nazareths are over 10. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Nazareth Naziah
England and Wales 715

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 Naziah.