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Nazario vs Naziah

American parents have registered 993 Nazarios since 1880, against 507 Naziahs. Nazario is still ahead, with 23 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nazario against Naziah, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nazario 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

Of the 85 years in which either name was published, Nazario for 71 years and Naziah for 14 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Nazario Naziah
Total US births 993507
Most in one year 3136
Babies in 2025 2322
Estimated living today 840500
Median age today 2214
Peak year 20212010
Best rank 3,582nd boys4,974th girls
Rank in 2025 4,396th8,860th
First recorded 19162000
Girls / boys 0 / 993323 / 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 Nazarios alive today are over 22; half the Naziahs are over 14. That is 8 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 Nazario Naziah
England and Wales 615

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: Nazario and Naziah.