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Aayan vs Aayat

American parents have registered 2,676 Aayans since 1880, against 517 Aayats. Aayan is still ahead, with 108 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aayan Aayat

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

Aayan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2002 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Aayan had 108 and Aayat had 51.

Side by side

  Aayan Aayat
Total US births 2,676517
Most in one year 20967
Babies in 2025 10851
Estimated living today 2,700510
Median age today 84
Peak year 20192022
Best rank 1,000th boys2,604th girls
Rank in 2025 1,571st3,130th
First recorded 20022012
Girls / boys 0 / 2,676517 / 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 Aayans alive today are over 8; half the Aayats are over 4. That is 4 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 Aayan Aayat
England and Wales 1,670941
France 14020
Scotland 5529
Ireland 2514

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: Aayan and Aayat.