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Aaric vs Aaryn

American parents have registered 2,261 Aaryns since 1880, against 575 Aarics. Aaryn is still ahead, with 40 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aaric against Aaryn, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aaric Aaryn

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 54 years in which either name was published, Aaryn for 53 years and Aaric for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aaric Aaryn
Total US births 5752,261
Most in one year 35109
Babies in 2025 940
Estimated living today 5702,200
Median age today 1516
Peak year 20162014
Best rank 3,230th boys2,535th girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd4,352nd
First recorded 19721973
Girls / boys 0 / 5751,473 / 788

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 Aaric Aaryn
England and Wales 2013

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 Aaryn.