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Adyan vs Adysen

American parents have registered 802 Adysens since 1880, against 578 Adyans. But in 2025 it was Adyan that was commoner, 26 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adyan against Adysen, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adyan Adysen

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 27 years in which either name was published, Adysen for 16 years and Adyan for 11 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Adyan Adysen
Total US births 578802
Most in one year 52104
Babies in 2025 26under 5
Estimated living today 570800
Median age today 916
Peak year 20142008
Best rank 2,429th boys2,004th girls
Rank in 2025 4,050thunranked
First recorded 20031998
Girls / boys 0 / 578802 / 0

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 Adysens alive today are over 16; half the Adyans are over 9. That is 7 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.

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