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Aaradhya vs Aarna

American parents have registered 2,848 Aarnas since 1880, against 1,037 Aaradhyas. Aarna is still ahead, with 137 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aaradhya Aarna

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

Aarna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2005 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Aaradhya had 102 and Aarna had 148.

Side by side

  Aaradhya Aarna
Total US births 1,0372,848
Most in one year 102268
Babies in 2025 74137
Estimated living today 1,0002,800
Median age today 77
Peak year 20162021
Best rank 1,956th girls967th girls
Rank in 2025 2,410th1,540th
First recorded 20122005
Girls / boys 1,037 / 02,848 / 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 Aaradhya Aarna
England and Wales 275419
France 3015
Ireland 917

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: Aaradhya and Aarna.