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Aldair vs Aldora

American parents have registered 1,454 Aldairs since 1880, against 515 Aldoras. Aldair is still ahead, with 26 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aldair against Aldora, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aldair Aldora

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 87 years in which either name was published, Aldora for 51 years and Aldair for 36 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aldair Aldora
Total US births 1,454515
Most in one year 10224
Babies in 2025 26under 5
Estimated living today 1,400120
Median age today 1972
Peak year 19981926
Best rank 1,205th boys1,721st girls
Rank in 2025 4,050thunranked
First recorded 19891899
Girls / boys 0 / 1,454515 / 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 Aldoras alive today are over 72; half the Aldairs are over 19. That is 53 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: Aldair and Aldora.