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Nazareth vs Naziyah

American parents have registered 2,402 Nazareths since 1880, against 653 Naziyahs. But in 2025 it was Naziyah that was commoner, 138 babies to 117.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nazareth 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 55 years in which either name was published, Nazareth for 54 years and Naziyah for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Nazareth Naziyah
Total US births 2,402653
Most in one year 156138
Babies in 2025 117138
Estimated living today 2,300650
Median age today 1011
Peak year 20232025
Best rank 1,865th girls1,534th girls
Rank in 2025 2,514th1,534th
First recorded 19202001
Girls / boys 1,204 / 1,198653 / 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: Nazareth and Naziyah.