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Gurnoor vs Gurtha

American parents have registered 549 Gurnoors since 1880, against 188 Gurthas. Gurnoor is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gurnoor against Gurtha, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gurnoor Gurtha

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 49 years in which either name was published, Gurtha for 27 years and Gurnoor for 22 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Gurnoor Gurtha
Total US births 549188
Most in one year 4512
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 55020
Median age today 1186
Peak year 20141925
Best rank 4,544th girls2,778th girls
Rank in 2025 6,116thunranked
First recorded 20031909
Girls / boys 384 / 165188 / 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 Gurthas alive today are over 86; half the Gurnoors are over 11. That is 75 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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