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Namir vs Namor

American parents have registered 935 Namirs since 1880, against 24 Namors. Namir is still ahead, with 65 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Namir Namor

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

Namir has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1991 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Namir had 72 and Namor had 14.

Side by side

  Namir Namor
Total US births 93524
Most in one year 7614
Babies in 2025 655
Estimated living today 93020
Median age today 82
Peak year 20242023
Best rank 2,012th boys6,220th boys
Rank in 2025 2,183rd12,008th
First recorded 19912023
Girls / boys 0 / 9350 / 24

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 Namors are over 2. That is 6 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: Namir and Namor.