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Aaric vs Aarya

American parents have registered 3,669 Aaryas since 1880, against 575 Aarics. Aarya is still ahead, with 192 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aaric against Aarya, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aaric Aarya

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 41 years in which either name was published, Aarya for 25 years and Aaric for 16 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Aaric Aarya
Total US births 5753,669
Most in one year 35270
Babies in 2025 9192
Estimated living today 5703,600
Median age today 157
Peak year 20162020
Best rank 3,230th boys994th girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd1,258th
First recorded 19722000
Girls / boys 0 / 5753,267 / 402

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 Aarics alive today are over 15; half the Aaryas are over 7. That is 8 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 Aaric Aarya
England and Wales 20974

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: Aaric and Aarya.