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Nuri vs Nuria

American parents have registered 1,674 Nuris since 1880, against 759 Nurias. Nuri is still ahead, with 106 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nuri against Nuria, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nuri 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 56 years in which either name was published, Nuria for 32 years and Nuri for 24 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Nuri Nuria
Total US births 1,674759
Most in one year 23944
Babies in 2025 10621
Estimated living today 1,700750
Median age today 620
Peak year 20192006
Best rank 1,119th girls3,564th girls
Rank in 2025 2,173rd5,722nd
First recorded 19751960
Girls / boys 1,164 / 510759 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Nurias alive today are over 20; half the Nuris are over 6. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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.

Country Nuri Nuria
Switzerland 193865
France 195455
England and Wales 55171
Belgium 2371

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: Nuri and Nuria.