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Zamaria vs Zamora

American parents have registered 1,499 Zamoras since 1880, against 880 Zamarias. Zamora is still ahead, with 130 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Zamaria Zamora

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 31 years in which either name was published, Zamora for 16 years and Zamaria for 15 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Zamaria Zamora
Total US births 8801,499
Most in one year 56130
Babies in 2025 23130
Estimated living today 8701,500
Median age today 156
Peak year 20072025
Best rank 3,096th girls1,605th girls
Rank in 2025 5,410th1,605th
First recorded 19961992
Girls / boys 880 / 01,499 / 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 Zamarias alive today are over 15; half the Zamoras are over 6. That is 9 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: Zamaria and Zamora.