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Aryn vs Aryssa

American parents have registered 3,373 Aryns since 1880, against 657 Aryssas. Aryn is still ahead, with 42 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aryn against Aryssa, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aryn 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

Aryn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1971 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Aryn had 58 and Aryssa had 41.

Side by side

  Aryn Aryssa
Total US births 3,373657
Most in one year 11058
Babies in 2025 425
Estimated living today 3,300650
Median age today 2520
Peak year 19932003
Best rank 1,554th girls2,707th girls
Rank in 2025 4,546th14,942nd
First recorded 19711989
Girls / boys 2,946 / 427657 / 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 Aryns alive today are over 25; half the Aryssas are over 20. 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: Aryn and Aryssa.