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Nizaraly vs Nizhoni

American parents have registered 834 Nizhonis since 1880, against 38 Nizaralys. Nizhoni is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nizaraly Nizhoni

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 37 years in which either name was published, Nizhoni for 36 years and Nizaraly for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Nizaraly Nizhoni
Total US births 38834
Most in one year 3839
Babies in 2025 under 530
Estimated living today 40830
Median age today 215
Peak year 20232018
Best rank 3,911th girls3,789th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,546th
First recorded 20231979
Girls / boys 38 / 0834 / 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 Nizhonis alive today are over 15; half the Nizaralys are over 2. That is 13 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: Nizaraly and Nizhoni.