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Aldair vs Aldric

American parents have registered 1,454 Aldairs since 1880, against 538 Aldrics. Aldair is still ahead, with 26 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aldair Aldric

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 65 years in which either name was published, Aldair for 34 years and Aldric for 31 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Aldair Aldric
Total US births 1,454538
Most in one year 10229
Babies in 2025 2617
Estimated living today 1,400510
Median age today 1923
Peak year 19982024
Best rank 1,205th boys3,793rd boys
Rank in 2025 4,050th5,399th
First recorded 19891954
Girls / boys 0 / 1,4540 / 538

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 Aldrics alive today are over 23; half the Aldairs are over 19. That is 4 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 Aldric.