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Airam vs Airrion

American parents have registered 1,342 Airams since 1880, against 78 Airrions. Airam is still ahead, with 50 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Airam Airrion

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 43 years in which either name was published, Airam for 38 years and Airrion for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Airam Airrion
Total US births 1,34278
Most in one year 8119
Babies in 2025 50under 5
Estimated living today 1,30070
Median age today 1149
Peak year 20241973
Best rank 3,081st girls2,124th boys
Rank in 2025 4,758thunranked
First recorded 19871973
Girls / boys 1,048 / 2940 / 78

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 Airrions alive today are over 49; half the Airams are over 11. That is 38 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: Airam and Airrion.