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Aaryan vs Aaryn

American parents have registered 2,261 Aaryns since 1880, against 2,155 Aaryans. But in 2025 it was Aaryan that was commoner, 74 babies to 40.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aaryan against Aaryn, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aaryan 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 32 years and Aaryan for 21 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Aaryan Aaryn
Total US births 2,1552,261
Most in one year 142109
Babies in 2025 7440
Estimated living today 2,1002,200
Median age today 1016
Peak year 20162014
Best rank 1,279th boys2,535th girls
Rank in 2025 2,020th4,352nd
First recorded 20011973
Girls / boys 6 / 2,1491,473 / 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 Aaryans are over 10. That is 6 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 Aaryan Aaryn
England and Wales 1,43713
Scotland 1714

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: Aaryan and Aaryn.