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Aysha vs Ayson

American parents have registered 3,189 Ayshas since 1880, against 691 Aysons. Aysha is still ahead, with 112 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aysha Ayson

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 57 years in which either name was published, Aysha for 55 years and Ayson for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Aysha Ayson
Total US births 3,189691
Most in one year 15361
Babies in 2025 11238
Estimated living today 3,100690
Median age today 228
Peak year 20242019
Best rank 1,441st girls2,265th boys
Rank in 2025 1,796th3,128th
First recorded 19692004
Girls / boys 3,189 / 00 / 691

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 Ayshas alive today are over 22; half the Aysons are over 8. That is 14 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 Aysha Ayson
England and Wales 2,5323

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: Aysha and Ayson.