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Naziah vs Nazir

American parents have registered 3,961 Nazirs since 1880, against 507 Naziahs. Nazir is still ahead, with 202 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Naziah 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

Nazir has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1985 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Naziah had 35 and Nazir had 127.

Side by side

  Naziah Nazir
Total US births 5073,961
Most in one year 36243
Babies in 2025 22202
Estimated living today 5003,900
Median age today 1411
Peak year 20102024
Best rank 4,974th girls946th boys
Rank in 2025 8,860th1,069th
First recorded 20001985
Girls / boys 323 / 1840 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Naziahs alive today are over 14; half the Nazirs are over 11. That is 3 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 Naziah Nazir
England and Wales 15101

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: Naziah and Nazir.