Nary
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nary has been given to 153 babies in the U.S. since 1936. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1986, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Nary, 1994
1 in 743,000
Nary over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nary?
Nary had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1994
- 1 in 743,000
- 5 of 3,715,972 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 357,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1994
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 515,144 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nary sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 515,144 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nary. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Narys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nary was born before 1988 — so the typical Nary is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 66.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 148
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (102).
Is Nary rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1986 (19)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.3% average annual change
Spellings of Nary
Nary is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 53.4% against Nary's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Nary is used
Across 1910–2025, Nary was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 400,319 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nary has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nary around the world
Where Nary ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1980–1990#3,539in 1990
- South Australia1990–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nary by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nary
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nary
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.