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Nazareth vs Nazir

American parents have registered 3,961 Nazirs since 1880, against 2,402 Nazareths. Nazir is still ahead, with 202 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nazareth against Nazir, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nazareth Nazir

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 56 years in which either name was published, Nazir for 30 years and Nazareth for 26 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Nazareth Nazir
Total US births 2,4023,961
Most in one year 156243
Babies in 2025 117202
Estimated living today 2,3003,900
Median age today 1011
Peak year 20232024
Best rank 1,865th girls946th boys
Rank in 2025 2,514th1,069th
First recorded 19201985
Girls / boys 1,204 / 1,1980 / 3,961

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Nazareth Nazir
France 30245
England and Wales 7101

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 Nazir.