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Aldair vs Aldo

American parents have registered 17,743 Aldos since 1880, against 1,454 Aldairs. Aldo is still ahead, with 241 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aldair against Aldo, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aldair Aldo

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

Aldo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1998, when Aldair had 102 and Aldo had 268.

Side by side

  Aldair Aldo
Total US births 1,45417,743
Most in one year 102666
Babies in 2025 26241
Estimated living today 1,40015,000
Median age today 1919
Peak year 19982007
Best rank 1,205th boys430th boys
Rank in 2025 4,050th960th
First recorded 19891906
Girls / boys 0 / 1,45415 / 17,728

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.

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 Aldo.