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Aahan vs Aahil

American parents have registered 923 Aahils since 1880, against 586 Aahans. Aahil is still ahead, with 37 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aahan against Aahil, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aahan Aahil

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 26 years in which either name was published, Aahil for 21 years and Aahan for 5 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Aahan Aahil
Total US births 586923
Most in one year 6381
Babies in 2025 2537
Estimated living today 580920
Median age today 79
Peak year 20212016
Best rank 2,225th boys1,845th boys
Rank in 2025 4,139th3,181st
First recorded 20052000
Girls / boys 0 / 5860 / 923

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 Aahils alive today are over 9; half the Aahans are over 7. That is 2 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 Aahan Aahil
England and Wales 1141,428
Ireland 313

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: Aahan and Aahil.