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Aryana vs Aryssa

American parents have registered 7,329 Aryanas since 1880, against 657 Aryssas. Aryana is still ahead, with 89 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aryana Aryssa

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

Aryana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1985 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Aryana had 52 and Aryssa had 20.

Side by side

  Aryana Aryssa
Total US births 7,329657
Most in one year 39258
Babies in 2025 895
Estimated living today 7,300650
Median age today 1520
Peak year 20142003
Best rank 715th girls2,707th girls
Rank in 2025 2,099th14,942nd
First recorded 19851989
Girls / boys 7,329 / 0657 / 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 Aryssas alive today are over 20; half the Aryanas are over 15. That is 5 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.

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