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Ayse vs Aysun

American parents have registered 556 Ayses since 1880, against 30 Aysuns. Ayse is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ayse against Aysun, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ayse Aysun

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, Ayse for 49 years and Aysun for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Ayse Aysun
Total US births 55630
Most in one year 2417
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 55030
Median age today 192
Peak year 20152023
Best rank 5,458th girls5,470th boys
Rank in 2025 10,917thunranked
First recorded 19582023
Girls / boys 556 / 00 / 30

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 Ayses alive today are over 19; half the Aysuns are over 2. That is 17 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 Aysun
France 2,370250

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 Aysun.