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Adira vs Aditya

American parents have registered 5,405 Adityas since 1880, against 1,889 Adiras. But in 2025 it was Adira that was commoner, 155 babies to 83.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adira against Aditya, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adira Aditya

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 47 years in which either name was published, Aditya for 40 years and Adira for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Adira Aditya
Total US births 1,8895,405
Most in one year 175331
Babies in 2025 15583
Estimated living today 1,9005,300
Median age today 517
Peak year 20192008
Best rank 1,307th girls706th boys
Rank in 2025 1,406th1,886th
First recorded 19931979
Girls / boys 1,889 / 05 / 5,400

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 Adityas alive today are over 17; half the Adiras are over 5. That is 12 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 Adira Aditya
England and Wales 145863
France 20100

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: Adira and Aditya.