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Aariyah vs Aarya

American parents have registered 3,669 Aaryas since 1880, against 862 Aariyahs. Aarya is still ahead, with 192 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aariyah 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

Aarya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2000 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Aariyah had 13 and Aarya had 28.

Side by side

  Aariyah Aarya
Total US births 8623,669
Most in one year 70270
Babies in 2025 40192
Estimated living today 8603,600
Median age today 87
Peak year 20182020
Best rank 2,508th girls994th girls
Rank in 2025 3,712th1,258th
First recorded 20032000
Girls / boys 862 / 03,267 / 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.

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 Aariyah Aarya
England and Wales 116974

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: Aariyah and Aarya.