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Landry vs Noah

How Landry and Noah compare across 146 years of US Social Security Administration baby-name records — popularity history, peak years, current rank, and which name overtook which.

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Landry

Male · Anglo

Meaning: Ruler

Noah

Male · Hebrew

Meaning: Comfort

US Popularity History — Side-by-Side

Annual US births named Landry (boys) vs Noah (boys), from US Social Security Administration national records.

Source: US Social Security Administration. Names appearing fewer than 5 times per year are suppressed by SSA.

Quick Stats

Metric Landry Noah
Peak year (most US births) 2012 — 353 boys 2025 — 20,358 boys
Peak rank #668 #2
Most recent rank (2025) #996 (229 births) #2 (20,358 births)
Total US births since 1880 3,388 491,353
Last 10 years (2016–2025) 1,686 191,165

Peak comparison takeaway

At its all-time peak, Noah reached 20,358 US births in 2025 — 20,005 more than Landry's peak count.

Strongest States — Last 10 Years

States where each name ranked highest, from SSA's state-level dataset. Lower average rank = name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name list.

Landry — top 5 states

#StateAvg rankBirths
1 Mississippi #344 48
2 Nebraska #408 31
3 Louisiana #437 119
4 Iowa #450 47
5 Kansas #501 57

Noah — top 5 states

#StateAvg rankBirths
1 Illinois #1 6,477
2 California #1 23,503
3 Connecticut #1 2,147
4 Pennsylvania #1 6,292
5 Michigan #1 4,404

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Data & methodology

Source: US Social Security Administration national baby names dataset 1880–2025 (CC0 public domain). Names with fewer than 5 occurrences in a given year are suppressed by SSA. State-level coverage runs 1910–2025. Crossover detection compares annual birth counts (not ranks) for each year both names appear. Methodology: see full notes. More comparisons →