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Namari vs Namir

American parents have registered 935 Namirs since 1880, against 767 Namaris. But in 2025 it was Namari that was commoner, 127 babies to 65.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Namari against Namir, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Namari Namir

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 34 years in which either name was published, Namir for 30 years and Namari for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Namari Namir
Total US births 767935
Most in one year 19176
Babies in 2025 12765
Estimated living today 760930
Median age today 28
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 1,668th boys2,012th boys
Rank in 2025 1,668th2,183rd
First recorded 20021991
Girls / boys 301 / 4660 / 935

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 Namirs alive today are over 8; half the Namaris are over 2. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Namari Namir
England and Wales 810

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: Namari and Namir.