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Aranza vs Arayah

American parents have registered 3,395 Aranzas since 1880, against 1,590 Arayahs. Aranza is still ahead, with 144 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aranza against Arayah, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aranza Arayah

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 34 years in which either name was published, Aranza for 29 years and Arayah for 5 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Aranza Arayah
Total US births 3,3951,590
Most in one year 476106
Babies in 2025 14496
Estimated living today 3,4001,600
Median age today 98
Peak year 20142015
Best rank 611th girls1,908th girls
Rank in 2025 1,484th1,990th
First recorded 19911997
Girls / boys 3,395 / 01,590 / 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.

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: Aranza and Arayah.