Neri vs Nerissa

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Neri Nerissa

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 78 years in which either name was published, Nerissa for 57 years and Neri for 21 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

• 1915–2002 Nerissa ahead
• 2003 Neri ahead
• 2004–2005 Nerissa ahead
• 2006–2025 Neri ahead

Side by side

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 Nerissas alive today are over 41; half the Neris are over 17. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Neri California (7.2×), Texas (2.6×)
• Nerissa California (4.7×), New York (3.0×), North Carolina (2.8×)

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.

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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