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Aryah vs Aryana

American parents have registered 7,329 Aryanas since 1880, against 2,180 Aryahs. But in 2025 it was Aryah that was commoner, 117 babies to 89.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aryah against Aryana, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aryah Aryana

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 40 years in which either name was published, Aryana for 34 years and Aryah for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aryah Aryana
Total US births 2,1807,329
Most in one year 161392
Babies in 2025 11789
Estimated living today 2,2007,300
Median age today 715
Peak year 20192014
Best rank 1,392nd girls715th girls
Rank in 2025 1,733rd2,099th
First recorded 19981985
Girls / boys 2,180 / 07,329 / 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 Aryanas alive today are over 15; half the Aryahs are over 7. That is 8 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 Aryah Aryana
England and Wales 43414
France 85200
Scotland 329

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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Related comparisons

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