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Aiyanna vs Aiyla

American parents have registered 4,609 Aiyannas since 1880, against 823 Aiylas. Aiyanna is still ahead, with 79 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aiyanna against Aiyla, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aiyanna Aiyla

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 36 years in which either name was published, Aiyanna for 34 years and Aiyla for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Aiyanna Aiyla
Total US births 4,609823
Most in one year 28295
Babies in 2025 7972
Estimated living today 4,600820
Median age today 155
Peak year 20092022
Best rank 945th girls2,034th girls
Rank in 2025 2,298th2,458th
First recorded 19902006
Girls / boys 4,609 / 0823 / 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 Aiyannas alive today are over 15; half the Aiylas are over 5. That is 10 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Aiyanna Aiyla
England and Wales 86997
France 9020 Aïyla

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: Aiyanna and Aiyla.