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Aerith vs Aeryn

American parents have registered 1,191 Aeryns since 1880, against 781 Aeriths. But in 2025 it was Aerith that was commoner, 94 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aerith against Aeryn, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aerith 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 24 years and Aerith for 8 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Aerith Aeryn
Total US births 7811,191
Most in one year 9476
Babies in 2025 9412
Estimated living today 7801,200
Median age today 515
Peak year 20252006
Best rank 2,017th girls2,438th girls
Rank in 2025 2,017th8,362nd
First recorded 20031992
Girls / boys 781 / 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 Aeriths are over 5. That is 10 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 Aerith Aeryn
England and Wales 52387
France 90170
Scotland 322

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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