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Namaari vs Namon

American parents have registered 1,121 Namons since 1880, against 221 Namaaris. But in 2025 it was Namaari that was commoner, 19 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Namaari Namon

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 101 years in which either name was published, Namon for 96 years and Namaari for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Namaari Namon
Total US births 2211,121
Most in one year 7225
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 220490
Median age today 358
Peak year 20221942
Best rank 2,639th girls1,381st boys
Rank in 2025 6,116thunranked
First recorded 20211884
Girls / boys 210 / 110 / 1,121

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 Namons alive today are over 58; half the Namaaris are over 3. That is 55 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: Namaari and Namon.