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Nomar vs Nomi

American parents have registered 616 Nomis since 1880, against 612 Nomars. Nomi is still ahead, with 59 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nomar Nomi

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 33 years in which either name was published, Nomar for 19 years and Nomi for 14 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Nomar Nomi
Total US births 612616
Most in one year 4171
Babies in 2025 1759
Estimated living today 610610
Median age today 175
Peak year 20042024
Best rank 2,599th boys2,508th girls
Rank in 2025 5,399th2,859th
First recorded 19981954
Girls / boys 0 / 612616 / 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 Nomars alive today are over 17; half the Nomis are over 5. That is 12 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: Nomar and Nomi.