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Iriana vs Iridiana

American parents have registered 632 Irianas since 1880, against 159 Iridianas. Iriana is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Iriana against Iridiana, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Iriana Iridiana

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 38 years in which either name was published, Iriana for 34 years and Iridiana for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Iriana Iridiana
Total US births 632159
Most in one year 3561
Babies in 2025 155
Estimated living today 630160
Median age today 1829
Peak year 20041995
Best rank 3,989th girls2,189th girls
Rank in 2025 7,133rd14,942nd
First recorded 19871995
Girls / boys 632 / 0159 / 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 Iridianas alive today are over 29; half the Irianas are over 18. That is 11 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Iriana and Iridiana.