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Aston vs Astrid

American parents have registered 14,153 Astrids since 1880, against 3,257 Astons. Astrid is still ahead, with 818 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aston against Astrid, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aston Astrid

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

Astrid has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1892 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Aston had 162 and Astrid had 250.

Side by side

  Aston Astrid
Total US births 3,25714,153
Most in one year 188822
Babies in 2025 93818
Estimated living today 3,20013,000
Median age today 1110
Peak year 20152024
Best rank 1,092nd boys382nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,852nd376th
First recorded 19151892
Girls / boys 217 / 3,04014,145 / 8

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aston Astrid
France 27518,070
Sweden 2719,059
England and Wales 3,3102,491
Scotland 142232
Poland 9100
Ireland 1684
Northern Ireland 187

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aston and Astrid.