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Aaiden vs Aaira

American parents have registered 967 Aaidens since 1880, against 578 Aairas. But in 2025 it was Aaira that was commoner, 65 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aaiden Aaira

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 22 years in which either name was published, Aaiden for 15 years and Aaira for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aaiden Aaira
Total US births 967578
Most in one year 8993
Babies in 2025 1265
Estimated living today 960580
Median age today 114
Peak year 20152024
Best rank 1,729th boys2,067th girls
Rank in 2025 6,803rd2,645th
First recorded 20042009
Girls / boys 0 / 967578 / 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 Aaidens alive today are over 11; half the Aairas are over 4. That is 7 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: Aaiden and Aaira.