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Aikeem vs Aiko

American parents have registered 1,886 Aikos since 1880, against 95 Aikeems. Aiko is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aikeem Aiko

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 83 years in which either name was published, Aiko for 80 years and Aikeem for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Aikeem Aiko
Total US births 951,886
Most in one year 1298
Babies in 2025 under 576
Estimated living today 901,400
Median age today 3312
Peak year 19922023
Best rank 4,564th boys2,352nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,719th
First recorded 19871912
Girls / boys 0 / 951,785 / 101

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 Aikeems alive today are over 33; half the Aikos are over 12. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

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