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Ayda vs Aydyn

American parents have registered 1,535 Aydas since 1880, against 401 Aydyns. Ayda is still ahead, with 74 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ayda Aydyn

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 37 years in which either name was published, Ayda for 36 years and Aydyn for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Ayda Aydyn
Total US births 1,535401
Most in one year 10241
Babies in 2025 74under 5
Estimated living today 1,500400
Median age today 814
Peak year 20222009
Best rank 1,942nd girls2,894th boys
Rank in 2025 2,410thunranked
First recorded 19682003
Girls / boys 1,535 / 011 / 390

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 Aydyns alive today are over 14; half the Aydas are over 8. That is 6 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: Ayda and Aydyn.