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Airam vs Airiana

American parents have registered 1,342 Airams since 1880, against 577 Airianas. Airam is still ahead, with 50 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Airam Airiana

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 38 years in which either name was published, Airam for 32 years and Airiana for 6 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Airam Airiana
Total US births 1,342577
Most in one year 8150
Babies in 2025 505
Estimated living today 1,300570
Median age today 1118
Peak year 20242007
Best rank 3,081st girls3,329th girls
Rank in 2025 4,758th14,942nd
First recorded 19871995
Girls / boys 1,048 / 294577 / 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 Airianas alive today are over 18; half the Airams are over 11. That is 7 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: Airam and Airiana.