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Aide vs Aidee

American parents have registered 2,010 Aides since 1880, against 769 Aidees. Aide is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aide Aidee

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 73 years in which either name was published, Aide for 72 years and Aidee for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Aide Aidee
Total US births 2,010769
Most in one year 10037
Babies in 2025 13under 5
Estimated living today 1,900750
Median age today 3028
Peak year 19961996
Best rank 1,571st girls3,149th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885thunranked
First recorded 19511962
Girls / boys 2,010 / 0769 / 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 Aides alive today are over 30; half the Aidees are over 28. 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.

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