Nur vs Nuria

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Nur Nuria

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, Nuria for 29 years and Nur for 26 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

• 1960–1988 Nuria ahead
• 1989–1991 Nur ahead
• 1992–1994 Nuria ahead
• 1995–2000 Nur ahead
• 2001 Nuria ahead
• 2002 Nur ahead
• 2003 Nuria ahead
• 2004 Nur ahead
• 2005–2008 Nuria ahead
• 2009 Nur ahead
• 2010–2011 Nuria ahead
• 2012–2025 Nur 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 Nurias alive today are over 20; half the Nurs are over 10. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Nur New York (5.8×)
• Nuria California (7.9×)

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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