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Aashi vs Aashna

American parents have registered 706 Aashnas since 1880, against 701 Aashis. But in 2025 it was Aashi that was commoner, 10 babies to 9.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aashi against Aashna, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aashi Aashna

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 33 years in which either name was published, Aashna for 17 years and Aashi for 16 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Aashi Aashna
Total US births 701706
Most in one year 5554
Babies in 2025 109
Estimated living today 700700
Median age today 1215
Peak year 20102013
Best rank 3,044th girls3,042nd girls
Rank in 2025 9,457th10,107th
First recorded 20021993
Girls / boys 701 / 0706 / 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 Aashnas alive today are over 15; half the Aashis are over 12. That is 3 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 Aashi Aashna
England and Wales 12177

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: Aashi and Aashna.