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Aide vs Aidon

American parents have registered 2,010 Aides since 1880, against 537 Aidons. Aide is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aide Aidon

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 67 years and Aidon for 6 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Aide Aidon
Total US births 2,010537
Most in one year 10047
Babies in 2025 135
Estimated living today 1,900530
Median age today 3017
Peak year 19962006
Best rank 1,571st girls2,542nd boys
Rank in 2025 7,885th12,008th
First recorded 19511998
Girls / boys 2,010 / 00 / 537

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 Aidons are over 17. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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