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Aariv vs Aaryn

American parents have registered 2,261 Aaryns since 1880, against 1,201 Aarivs. But in 2025 it was Aariv that was commoner, 131 babies to 40.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aariv against Aaryn, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aariv Aaryn

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 53 years in which either name was published, Aaryn for 47 years and Aariv for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aariv Aaryn
Total US births 1,2012,261
Most in one year 204109
Babies in 2025 13140
Estimated living today 1,2002,200
Median age today 316
Peak year 20242014
Best rank 1,068th boys2,535th girls
Rank in 2025 1,393rd4,352nd
First recorded 20071973
Girls / boys 0 / 1,2011,473 / 788

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 Aaryns alive today are over 16; half the Aarivs are over 3. That is 13 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 Aariv Aaryn
England and Wales 12613

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: Aariv and Aaryn.