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Nazir vs Naziyah

American parents have registered 3,961 Nazirs since 1880, against 653 Naziyahs. Nazir is still ahead, with 202 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nazir 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

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 2025, when Nazir had 202 and Naziyah had 138.

Side by side

  Nazir Naziyah
Total US births 3,961653
Most in one year 243138
Babies in 2025 202138
Estimated living today 3,900650
Median age today 1111
Peak year 20242025
Best rank 946th boys1,534th girls
Rank in 2025 1,069th1,534th
First recorded 19852001
Girls / boys 0 / 3,961653 / 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: Nazir and Naziyah.