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Aden vs Adeya

American parents have registered 22,517 Adens since 1880, against 244 Adeyas. Aden is still ahead, with 234 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aden against Adeya, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aden Adeya

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

Aden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Aden had 234 and Adeya had 33.

Side by side

  Aden Adeya
Total US births 22,517244
Most in one year 1,43251
Babies in 2025 23433
Estimated living today 22,000240
Median age today 163
Peak year 20062020
Best rank 244th boys3,091st girls
Rank in 2025 1,008th4,265th
First recorded 18802019
Girls / boys 663 / 21,854244 / 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 Adens alive today are over 16; half the Adeyas 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 Aden Adeya
England and Wales 1,2027

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: Aden and Adeya.