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Astoria vs Astrid

American parents have registered 14,153 Astrids since 1880, against 727 Astorias. Astrid is still ahead, with 818 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Astoria 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 2024, when Astoria had 98 and Astrid had 822.

Side by side

  Astoria Astrid
Total US births 72714,153
Most in one year 98822
Babies in 2025 83818
Estimated living today 72013,000
Median age today 510
Peak year 20242024
Best rank 1,997th girls382nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,214th376th
First recorded 19911892
Girls / boys 727 / 014,145 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Astrids alive today are over 10; half the Astorias are over 5. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Astoria Astrid
France 1018,070
England and Wales 392,491
Poland 2100

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: Astoria and Astrid.