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Aadhya vs Aadya

American parents have registered 3,476 Aadhyas since 1880, against 2,066 Aadyas. Aadhya is still ahead, with 268 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aadhya against Aadya, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aadhya Aadya

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 23 years in which either name was published, Aadhya for 15 years and Aadya for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aadhya Aadya
Total US births 3,4762,066
Most in one year 291168
Babies in 2025 268122
Estimated living today 3,5002,100
Median age today 67
Peak year 20172020
Best rank 919th girls1,308th girls
Rank in 2025 960th1,684th
First recorded 20072003
Girls / boys 3,476 / 02,066 / 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.

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 Aadhya Aadya
England and Wales 558310
France 255
Ireland 216
Scotland 37

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: Aadhya and Aadya.