Nadean vs Nadene
American parents have registered 1,895 Nadenes since 1880, against 1,365 Nadeans. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Nadean Nadene
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 94 years in which either name was published, Nadene for 75 years and Nadean for 19 years. The lead changed hands 25 times.
- 1918–1985 Nadene ahead, apart from 4 short spells
- 1986–1988 Nadean ahead
- 1993–2001 Nadene ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2002–2006 Nadean ahead
17 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Nadean | Nadene | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,365 | 1,895 |
| Most in one year | 40 | 43 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 600 | 940 |
| Median age today | 69 | 66 |
| Peak year | 1931 | 1930 |
| Best rank | 1,127th girls | 1,128th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1908 | 1909 |
| Girls / boys | 1,365 / 0 | 1,895 / 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 Nadeans alive today are over 69; half the Nadenes are over 66. That is 3 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: Nadean and Nadene.