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Aria vs Ariyon

American parents have registered 96,373 Arias since 1880, against 484 Ariyons. Aria is still ahead, with 6,152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aria Ariyon

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 1998, when Aria had 192 and Ariyon had 34.

Side by side

  Aria Ariyon
Total US births 96,373484
Most in one year 7,45467
Babies in 2025 6,15221
Estimated living today 96,000480
Median age today 79
Peak year 20182020
Best rank 19th girls2,094th boys
Rank in 2025 26th4,707th
First recorded 19001998
Girls / boys 95,674 / 699178 / 306

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 Ariyons alive today are over 9; half the Arias are over 7. That is 2 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 Ariyon.