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Aashi vs Aasim

American parents have registered 701 Aashis since 1880, against 570 Aasims. But in 2025 it was Aasim that was commoner, 17 babies to 10.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aashi against Aasim, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aashi Aasim

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 34 years in which either name was published, Aasim for 20 years and Aashi for 14 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Aashi Aasim
Total US births 701570
Most in one year 5579
Babies in 2025 1017
Estimated living today 700560
Median age today 128
Peak year 20102017
Best rank 3,044th girls1,861st boys
Rank in 2025 9,457th5,399th
First recorded 20021972
Girls / boys 701 / 00 / 570

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 Aashis alive today are over 12; half the Aasims are over 8. That is 4 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 Aashi Aasim
England and Wales 121149

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: Aashi and Aasim.