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Astria vs Astrid

American parents have registered 14,153 Astrids since 1880, against 76 Astrias. Astrid is still ahead, with 818 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Astria 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 1978, when Astria had 24 and Astrid had 33.

Side by side

  Astria Astrid
Total US births 7614,153
Most in one year 24822
Babies in 2025 5818
Estimated living today 7013,000
Median age today 4510
Peak year 19782024
Best rank 3,196th girls382nd girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd376th
First recorded 19781892
Girls / boys 76 / 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 Astrias alive today are over 45; half the Astrids are over 10. That is 35 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: Astria and Astrid.