Aerin vs Aeron

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Aerin Aeron

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 53 years in which either name was published, Aerin for 32 years and Aeron for 21 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

• 1970–1977 Aeron ahead
• 1978 Aerin ahead
• 1979 Aeron ahead
• 1980 Aerin ahead
• 1981–1982 Aeron ahead
• 1983–1986 Aerin ahead
• 1987–1996 Aeron ahead
• 1997–2011 Aerin ahead
• 2012 Aeron ahead
• 2013–2014 Aerin ahead
• 2015 Aeron ahead
• 2016–2025 Aerin ahead

Side by side

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 Aerons alive today are over 22; half the Aerins are over 17. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

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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