Humanverse

Aaradhya vs Aaron

American parents have registered 618,857 Aarons since 1880, against 1,037 Aaradhyas. Aaron is still ahead, with 4,058 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aaradhya against Aaron, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aaradhya Aaron

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

Aaron has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Aaradhya had 89 and Aaron had 4,252.

Side by side

  Aaradhya Aaron
Total US births 1,037618,857
Most in one year 10215,407
Babies in 2025 744,058
Estimated living today 1,000566,000
Median age today 734
Peak year 20161989
Best rank 1,956th girls31st boys
Rank in 2025 2,410th80th
First recorded 20121880
Girls / boys 1,037 / 04,395 / 614,462

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 Aarons alive today are over 34; half the Aaradhyas are over 7. That is 27 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aaradhya Aaron
France 3039,850
England and Wales 27536,653
Ireland 913,706

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aaradhya and Aaron.