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Aryana vs Aryanna

American parents have registered 9,435 Aryannas since 1880, against 7,329 Aryanas. But in 2025 it was Aryana that was commoner, 89 babies to 86.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aryana against Aryanna, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aryana Aryanna

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, Aryanna for 23 years and Aryana for 17 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Aryana Aryanna
Total US births 7,3299,435
Most in one year 392571
Babies in 2025 8986
Estimated living today 7,3009,400
Median age today 1515
Peak year 20142012
Best rank 715th girls530th girls
Rank in 2025 2,099th2,153rd
First recorded 19851988
Girls / boys 7,329 / 09,435 / 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.

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 Aryana Aryanna
England and Wales 414133
France 20050

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