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Aryana vs Aryya

American parents have registered 7,329 Aryanas since 1880, against 56 Aryyas. Aryana is still ahead, with 89 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aryana Aryya

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 2023, when Aryana had 107 and Aryya had 22.

Side by side

  Aryana Aryya
Total US births 7,32956
Most in one year 39222
Babies in 2025 8915
Estimated living today 7,30060
Median age today 151
Peak year 20142023
Best rank 715th girls5,549th girls
Rank in 2025 2,099th7,133rd
First recorded 19852023
Girls / boys 7,329 / 056 / 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 Aryyas are over 1. That is 14 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: Aryana and Aryya.