Ari vs Aristeo
American parents have registered 28,254 Aris since 1880, against 898 Aristeos. Ari is still ahead, with 1,284 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Ari Aristeo
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 94 years in which either name was published, Ari for 68 years and Aristeo for 26 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Ari | Aristeo | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 28,254 | 898 |
| Most in one year | 1,752 | 24 |
| Babies in 2025 | 1,284 | 15 |
| Estimated living today | 28,000 | 730 |
| Median age today | 10 | 27 |
| Peak year | 2022 | 2000 |
| Best rank | 328th boys | 3,423rd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 393rd | 5,861st |
| First recorded | 1958 | 1924 |
| Girls / boys | 7,662 / 20,592 | 0 / 898 |
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 Aristeos alive today are over 27; half the Aris are over 10. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Ari the District of Columbia (1.9×), Nevada (1.8×), Florida (1.8×)
- Aristeo Texas (6.5×), California (4.9×)
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: Ari and Aristeo.