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Nari vs Nariyah

American parents have registered 2,127 Nariyahs since 1880, against 529 Naris. Nariyah is still ahead, with 130 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nari against Nariyah, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nari Nariyah

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 31 years in which either name was published, Nariyah for 24 years and Nari for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Nari Nariyah
Total US births 5292,127
Most in one year 44146
Babies in 2025 43130
Estimated living today 5302,100
Median age today 810
Peak year 20232010
Best rank 3,525th girls1,529th girls
Rank in 2025 3,517th1,605th
First recorded 19752002
Girls / boys 529 / 02,127 / 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 Nariyahs alive today are over 10; half the Naris are over 8. That is 2 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 Nari Nariyah
England and Wales 3104

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: Nari and Nariyah.