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Aidanna vs Aide

American parents have registered 2,010 Aides since 1880, against 39 Aidannas. Aide is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aidanna Aide

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 73 years in which either name was published, Aide for 71 years and Aidanna for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Aidanna Aide
Total US births 392,010
Most in one year 22100
Babies in 2025 under 513
Estimated living today 401,900
Median age today 330
Peak year 20221996
Best rank 5,638th girls1,571st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked7,885th
First recorded 20221951
Girls / boys 39 / 02,010 / 0

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 Aides alive today are over 30; half the Aidannas are over 3. That is 27 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: Aidanna and Aide.