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Asahd vs Asani

American parents have registered 986 Asanis since 1880, against 517 Asahds. Asani is still ahead, with 123 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Asahd Asani

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 27 years in which either name was published, Asani for 22 years and Asahd for 5 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Asahd Asani
Total US births 517986
Most in one year 103123
Babies in 2025 22123
Estimated living today 510980
Median age today 57
Peak year 20182012
Best rank 1,593rd boys2,205th girls
Rank in 2025 4,539th2,751st
First recorded 20171999
Girls / boys 0 / 517614 / 372

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 Asanis alive today are over 7; half the Asahds are over 5. That is 2 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: Asahd and Asani.