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Aayat vs Aayush

American parents have registered 1,475 Aayushes since 1880, against 517 Aayats. But in 2025 it was Aayat that was commoner, 51 babies to 23.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aayat against Aayush, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aayat Aayush

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 29 years in which either name was published, Aayush for 23 years and Aayat for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aayat Aayush
Total US births 5171,475
Most in one year 6788
Babies in 2025 5123
Estimated living today 5101,500
Median age today 413
Peak year 20222015
Best rank 2,604th girls1,740th boys
Rank in 2025 3,130th4,396th
First recorded 20121997
Girls / boys 517 / 00 / 1,475

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 Aayushes alive today are over 13; half the Aayats are over 4. That is 9 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 Aayat Aayush
England and Wales 941339

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: Aayat and Aayush.