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Aasha vs Aashvi

American parents have registered 1,082 Aashvis since 1880, against 398 Aashas. Aashvi is still ahead, with 104 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aasha Aashvi

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 35 years in which either name was published, Aasha for 20 years and Aashvi for 15 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Aasha Aashvi
Total US births 3981,082
Most in one year 20136
Babies in 2025 19104
Estimated living today 3901,100
Median age today 144
Peak year 19862023
Best rank 4,028th girls1,557th girls
Rank in 2025 6,116th1,880th
First recorded 19862004
Girls / boys 398 / 01,082 / 0

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 Aashas alive today are over 14; half the Aashvis are over 4. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Aasha Aashvi
England and Wales 35174

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: Aasha and Aashvi.