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Aryanna vs Aryssa

American parents have registered 9,435 Aryannas since 1880, against 657 Aryssas. Aryanna is still ahead, with 86 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aryanna 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

Aryanna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1988 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1989, when Aryanna had 9 and Aryssa had 5.

Side by side

  Aryanna Aryssa
Total US births 9,435657
Most in one year 57158
Babies in 2025 865
Estimated living today 9,400650
Median age today 1520
Peak year 20122003
Best rank 530th girls2,707th girls
Rank in 2025 2,153rd14,942nd
First recorded 19881989
Girls / boys 9,435 / 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 Aryannas 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: Aryanna and Aryssa.