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Nada vs Nader

American parents have registered 5,129 Nadas since 1880, against 1,555 Naders. Nada is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nada against Nader, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nada Nader

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 132 years in which either name was published, Nada for 119 years and Nader for 13 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Nada Nader
Total US births 5,1291,555
Most in one year 7861
Babies in 2025 3211
Estimated living today 3,4001,500
Median age today 3333
Peak year 20001990
Best rank 2,089th girls1,435th boys
Rank in 2025 4,352nd7,194th
First recorded 18921963
Girls / boys 5,129 / 00 / 1,555

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.

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 Nada Nader
France 2,940730
Belgium 74711
England and Wales 60682

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: Nada and Nader.