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Aria vs Aristede

American parents have registered 96,373 Arias since 1880, against 22 Aristedes. Aria is still ahead, with 6,152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aria against Aristede, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aria Aristede

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 90 years in which either name was published, Aria for 89 years and Aristede for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Aria Aristede
Total US births 96,37322
Most in one year 7,45417
Babies in 2025 6,152under 5
Estimated living today 96,00019
Median age today 756
Peak year 20181969
Best rank 19th girls2,046th boys
Rank in 2025 26thunranked
First recorded 19001969
Girls / boys 95,674 / 6990 / 22

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 Aristedes alive today are over 56; half the Arias are over 7. That is 49 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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