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Aarav vs Aarron

American parents have registered 8,209 Aaravs since 1880, against 1,240 Aarrons. Aarav is still ahead, with 377 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aarav against Aarron, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aarav Aarron

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 62 years in which either name was published, Aarron for 39 years and Aarav for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aarav Aarron
Total US births 8,2091,240
Most in one year 54154
Babies in 2025 377under 5
Estimated living today 8,1001,200
Median age today 933
Peak year 20151992
Best rank 529th boys1,621st boys
Rank in 2025 710thunranked
First recorded 20021964
Girls / boys 0 / 8,2090 / 1,240

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 Aarrons alive today are over 33; half the Aaravs are over 9. That is 24 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 Aarav Aarron
England and Wales 2,475212
Scotland 55125
Ireland 746
France 3515

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: Aarav and Aarron.