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Aryan vs Aryonna

American parents have registered 8,854 Aryans since 1880, against 623 Aryonnas. Aryan is still ahead, with 280 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aryan against Aryonna, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aryan 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

Aryan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1978 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Aryan had 50 and Aryonna had 34.

Side by side

  Aryan Aryonna
Total US births 8,854623
Most in one year 43345
Babies in 2025 280under 5
Estimated living today 8,800620
Median age today 1218
Peak year 20072006
Best rank 613th boys3,505th girls
Rank in 2025 871stunranked
First recorded 19781991
Girls / boys 748 / 8,106623 / 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 Aryans are over 12. That is 6 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: Aryan and Aryonna.