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Narciso vs Narda

American parents have registered 2,078 Narcisos since 1880, against 656 Nardas. Narciso is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Narciso against Narda, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Narciso Narda

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 112 years in which either name was published, Narciso for 102 years and Narda for 10 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Narciso Narda
Total US births 2,078656
Most in one year 3432
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,300550
Median age today 4562
Peak year 19901961
Best rank 2,128th boys2,070th girls
Rank in 2025 12,008thunranked
First recorded 18931937
Girls / boys 0 / 2,078656 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Nardas alive today are over 62; half the Narcisos are over 45. That is 17 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Narciso and Narda.