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Airalani vs Airam

American parents have registered 1,342 Airams since 1880, against 30 Airalanis. Airam is still ahead, with 50 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Airalani Airam

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

Airam has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1987 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Airalani had 30 and Airam had 50.

Side by side

  Airalani Airam
Total US births 301,342
Most in one year 3081
Babies in 2025 3050
Estimated living today 301,300
Median age today 011
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 4,546th girls3,081st girls
Rank in 2025 4,546th4,758th
First recorded 20251987
Girls / boys 30 / 01,048 / 294

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 Airams alive today are over 11; half the Airalanis have not had a first birthday. That is 11 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: Airalani and Airam.