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Aerin vs Aero

American parents have registered 960 Aerins since 1880, against 720 Aeros. But in 2025 it was Aero that was commoner, 77 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aerin Aero

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 47 years in which either name was published, Aerin for 35 years and Aero for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aerin Aero
Total US births 960720
Most in one year 6077
Babies in 2025 1277
Estimated living today 950720
Median age today 175
Peak year 20082025
Best rank 3,120th girls2,108th boys
Rank in 2025 8,362nd2,108th
First recorded 19762005
Girls / boys 944 / 16126 / 594

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 Aerins alive today are over 17; half the Aeros are over 5. That is 12 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: Aerin and Aero.