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Aero vs Aeryn

American parents have registered 1,191 Aeryns since 1880, against 720 Aeros. But in 2025 it was Aero that was commoner, 77 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aero 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 22 years and Aero for 10 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Aero Aeryn
Total US births 7201,191
Most in one year 7776
Babies in 2025 7712
Estimated living today 7201,200
Median age today 515
Peak year 20252006
Best rank 2,108th boys2,438th girls
Rank in 2025 2,108th8,362nd
First recorded 20051992
Girls / boys 126 / 5941,162 / 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 Aeros 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.

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