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Aarav vs Aaryan

American parents have registered 8,209 Aaravs since 1880, against 2,155 Aaryans. Aarav is still ahead, with 377 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aarav Aaryan

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 25 years in which either name was published, Aarav for 21 years and Aaryan for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aarav Aaryan
Total US births 8,2092,155
Most in one year 541142
Babies in 2025 37774
Estimated living today 8,1002,100
Median age today 910
Peak year 20152016
Best rank 529th boys1,279th boys
Rank in 2025 710th2,020th
First recorded 20022001
Girls / boys 0 / 8,2096 / 2,149

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 Aarav Aaryan
England and Wales 2,4751,437
Ireland 7413
Scotland 5517
France 3520
Poland 42

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 Aaryan.