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Aarav vs Aarushi

American parents have registered 8,209 Aaravs since 1880, against 850 Aarushis. Aarav is still ahead, with 377 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aarav against Aarushi, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aarav Aarushi

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 27 years in which either name was published, Aarav for 22 years and Aarushi for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aarav Aarushi
Total US births 8,209850
Most in one year 54159
Babies in 2025 3779
Estimated living today 8,100840
Median age today 915
Peak year 20152006
Best rank 529th boys2,916th girls
Rank in 2025 710th10,107th
First recorded 20021999
Girls / boys 0 / 8,209850 / 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 Aarushis alive today are over 15; half the Aaravs are over 9. That is 6 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 Aarav Aarushi
England and Wales 2,475184
France 3520

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: Aarav and Aarushi.