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Arya vs Aryonna

American parents have registered 31,871 Aryas since 1880, against 623 Aryonnas. Arya is still ahead, with 1,912 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Arya Aryonna

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 1999, when Arya had 47 and Aryonna had 34.

Side by side

  Arya Aryonna
Total US births 31,871623
Most in one year 3,10045
Babies in 2025 1,912under 5
Estimated living today 32,000620
Median age today 618
Peak year 20192006
Best rank 92nd girls3,505th girls
Rank in 2025 158thunranked
First recorded 19821991
Girls / boys 29,536 / 2,335623 / 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 Aryonnas alive today are over 18; half the Aryas are over 6. That is 12 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: Arya and Aryonna.