Nadiyah vs Nadya

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Nadiyah 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 67 years and Nadiyah for 7 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

• 1915–1975 Nadya ahead
• 1976–1980 Nadiyah ahead
• 1981–1982 Nadya ahead
• 1983 Nadiyah ahead
• 1984–1991 Nadya ahead
• 1992 Nadiyah ahead
• 1993–2025 Nadya ahead

Side by side

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 Nadiyahs alive today are over 22; half the Nadyas are over 20. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Nadiyah New Jersey (7.1×), Pennsylvania (5.7×)
• Nadya California (4.5×), Texas (2.8×), Florida (2.3×)

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.

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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