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Advait vs Advay

American parents have registered 796 Advaits since 1880, against 564 Advays. Advait is still ahead, with 54 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Advait against Advay, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Advait Advay

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 26 years in which either name was published, Advait for 22 years and Advay for 4 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Advait Advay
Total US births 796564
Most in one year 5451
Babies in 2025 5435
Estimated living today 790560
Median age today 810
Peak year 20242014
Best rank 2,502nd boys2,461st boys
Rank in 2025 2,480th3,314th
First recorded 19992002
Girls / boys 0 / 7960 / 564

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 Advays alive today are over 10; half the Advaits are over 8. That is 2 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 Advait Advay
England and Wales 11475

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: Advait and Advay.