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Aarion vs Aarya

American parents have registered 3,669 Aaryas since 1880, against 687 Aarions. Aarya is still ahead, with 192 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aarion 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 42 years in which either name was published, Aarya for 23 years and Aarion for 19 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aarion Aarya
Total US births 6873,669
Most in one year 35270
Babies in 2025 13192
Estimated living today 6803,600
Median age today 207
Peak year 20112020
Best rank 3,605th boys994th girls
Rank in 2025 6,446th1,258th
First recorded 19802000
Girls / boys 146 / 5413,267 / 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 Aarions alive today are over 20; half the Aaryas are over 7. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aarion and Aarya.