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Aria vs Ariya

American parents have registered 96,373 Arias since 1880, against 7,400 Ariyas. Aria is still ahead, with 6,152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aria Ariya

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

Aria has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1900 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Aria had 456 and Ariya had 79.

Side by side

  Aria Ariya
Total US births 96,3737,400
Most in one year 7,454599
Babies in 2025 6,152476
Estimated living today 96,0007,400
Median age today 76
Peak year 20182019
Best rank 19th girls519th girls
Rank in 2025 26th614th
First recorded 19001991
Girls / boys 95,674 / 6997,370 / 30

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aria Ariya
England and Wales 13,0811,489
France 5,81090
Scotland 2,374109
Ireland 93569
Switzerland 87753
Northern Ireland 64049
Poland 2602

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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