Ahren vs Ahron

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Ahren Ahron

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 58 years in which either name was published, Ahron for 32 years and Ahren for 26 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

• 1958–1970 Ahron ahead
• 1971–1987 Ahren ahead
• 1988 Ahron ahead
• 1989–1991 Ahren ahead
• 1992–1993 Ahron ahead
• 1994 Ahren ahead
• 1995–2000 Ahron ahead
• 2001–2002 Ahren ahead
• 2003 Ahron ahead
• 2004–2006 Ahren ahead
• 2007–2025 Ahron ahead

Side by side

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 Ahrens alive today are over 24; half the Ahrons are over 12. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

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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