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Nadir vs Nadya

American parents have registered 2,647 Nadyas since 1880, against 1,292 Nadirs. But in 2025 it was Nadir that was commoner, 23 babies to 21.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nadir against Nadya, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nadir Nadya

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 74 years in which either name was published, Nadya for 71 years and Nadir for 3 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Nadir Nadya
Total US births 1,2922,647
Most in one year 46115
Babies in 2025 2321
Estimated living today 1,3002,600
Median age today 2020
Peak year 20012006
Best rank 2,217th boys1,798th girls
Rank in 2025 4,396th5,722nd
First recorded 19751915
Girls / boys 0 / 1,2922,647 / 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.

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 Nadir Nadya
France 5,520515
Belgium 4755
England and Wales 290149
Poland 917

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: Nadir and Nadya.