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Aerilyn vs Aeryn

American parents have registered 1,191 Aeryns since 1880, against 333 Aerilyns. Aeryn is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aerilyn against Aeryn, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aerilyn Aeryn

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 32 years in which either name was published, Aeryn for 31 years and Aerilyn for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Aerilyn Aeryn
Total US births 3331,191
Most in one year 3276
Babies in 2025 712
Estimated living today 3301,200
Median age today 1015
Peak year 20162006
Best rank 4,423rd girls2,438th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd8,362nd
First recorded 20091992
Girls / boys 333 / 01,162 / 29

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 Aeryns alive today are over 15; half the Aerilyns are over 10. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aerilyn and Aeryn.