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Aahana vs Aahil

American parents have registered 982 Aahanas since 1880, against 923 Aahils. Aahana is still ahead, with 40 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aahana 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, Aahana for 17 years and Aahil for 9 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Aahana Aahil
Total US births 982923
Most in one year 9281
Babies in 2025 4037
Estimated living today 980920
Median age today 89
Peak year 20182016
Best rank 2,084th girls1,845th boys
Rank in 2025 3,712th3,181st
First recorded 20052000
Girls / boys 982 / 00 / 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.

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 Aahana Aahil
England and Wales 1551,428
France 540

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: Aahana and Aahil.