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Tiara vs Tiarnan

American parents have registered 23,929 Tiaras since 1880, against 26 Tiarnans. Tiara is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tiara against Tiarnan, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tiara Tiarnan

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

Tiara 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 2002, when Tiara had 533 and Tiarnan had 8.

Side by side

  Tiara Tiarnan
Total US births 23,92926
Most in one year 1,2788
Babies in 2025 95under 5
Estimated living today 23,00030
Median age today 3123
Peak year 19952002
Best rank 222nd girls7,643rd boys
Rank in 2025 2,002ndunranked
First recorded 19571998
Girls / boys 23,868 / 610 / 26

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 Tiaras alive today are over 31; half the Tiarnans are over 23. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tiara Tiarnan
England and Wales 47288
Scotland 64

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: Tiara and Tiarnan.