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Arya vs Aryia

American parents have registered 31,871 Aryas since 1880, against 758 Aryias. Arya is still ahead, with 1,912 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arya against Aryia, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arya Aryia

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

Arya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1982 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Arya had 81 and Aryia had 5.

Side by side

  Arya Aryia
Total US births 31,871758
Most in one year 3,10071
Babies in 2025 1,91230
Estimated living today 32,000750
Median age today 68
Peak year 20192019
Best rank 92nd girls2,482nd girls
Rank in 2025 158th4,546th
First recorded 19822000
Girls / boys 29,536 / 2,335758 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Aryias alive today are over 8; half the Aryas are over 6. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Arya Aryia
England and Wales 4,83454
Scotland 44620
Northern Ireland 1156

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.

Compare something else

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