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Raider vs Raizy

American parents have registered 2,671 Raizys since 1880, against 598 Raiders. Raizy is still ahead, with 124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raider against Raizy, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raider Raizy

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

Raizy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Raider had 47 and Raizy had 107.

Side by side

  Raider Raizy
Total US births 5982,671
Most in one year 47124
Babies in 2025 23124
Estimated living today 5902,600
Median age today 912
Peak year 20182025
Best rank 2,635th boys1,666th girls
Rank in 2025 4,396th1,666th
First recorded 19951957
Girls / boys 0 / 5982,671 / 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 Raizys alive today are over 12; half the Raiders are over 9. That is 3 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Raider and Raizy.