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Aldair vs Aldin

American parents have registered 1,454 Aldairs since 1880, against 721 Aldins. Aldair is still ahead, with 26 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aldair against Aldin, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aldair Aldin

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 47 years in which either name was published, Aldair for 34 years and Aldin for 13 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Aldair Aldin
Total US births 1,454721
Most in one year 10242
Babies in 2025 269
Estimated living today 1,400670
Median age today 1916
Peak year 19982007
Best rank 1,205th boys2,811th boys
Rank in 2025 4,050th8,243rd
First recorded 19891917
Girls / boys 0 / 1,4540 / 721

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 Aldairs alive today are over 19; half the Aldins are over 16. That is 3 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: Aldair and Aldin.