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Aiyana vs Aiyanna

American parents have registered 9,891 Aiyanas since 1880, against 4,609 Aiyannas. Aiyana is still ahead, with 184 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aiyana against Aiyanna, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aiyana Aiyanna

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

Aiyana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Aiyana had 360 and Aiyanna had 240.

Side by side

  Aiyana Aiyanna
Total US births 9,8914,609
Most in one year 544282
Babies in 2025 18479
Estimated living today 9,8004,600
Median age today 1615
Peak year 20102009
Best rank 538th girls945th girls
Rank in 2025 1,225th2,298th
First recorded 19751990
Girls / boys 9,891 / 04,609 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aiyana Aiyanna
France 48590
England and Wales 42586

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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