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Ayse vs Aysia

American parents have registered 2,160 Aysias since 1880, against 556 Ayses. Aysia is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ayse Aysia

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 51 years in which either name was published, Aysia for 38 years and Ayse for 13 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Ayse Aysia
Total US births 5562,160
Most in one year 24123
Babies in 2025 810
Estimated living today 5502,100
Median age today 1922
Peak year 20152009
Best rank 5,458th girls1,769th girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th9,457th
First recorded 19581984
Girls / boys 556 / 02,160 / 0

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 Aysias alive today are over 22; half the Ayses are over 19. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Ayse Aysia
England and Wales 65578

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: Ayse and Aysia.