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Aryeh vs Aryonna

American parents have registered 3,500 Aryehs since 1880, against 623 Aryonnas. Aryeh is still ahead, with 153 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aryeh against Aryonna, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aryeh 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

Of the 65 years in which either name was published, Aryeh for 64 years and Aryonna for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Aryeh Aryonna
Total US births 3,500623
Most in one year 15345
Babies in 2025 153under 5
Estimated living today 3,400620
Median age today 1418
Peak year 20252006
Best rank 1,281st boys3,505th girls
Rank in 2025 1,281stunranked
First recorded 19541991
Girls / boys 5 / 3,495623 / 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 Aryehs are over 14. That is 4 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: Aryeh and Aryonna.