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Aldo vs Aldora

American parents have registered 17,743 Aldos since 1880, against 515 Aldoras. Aldo is still ahead, with 241 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aldo against Aldora, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aldo 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 125 years in which either name was published, Aldo for 118 years and Aldora for 7 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Aldo Aldora
Total US births 17,743515
Most in one year 66624
Babies in 2025 241under 5
Estimated living today 15,000120
Median age today 1972
Peak year 20071926
Best rank 430th boys1,721st girls
Rank in 2025 960thunranked
First recorded 19061899
Girls / boys 15 / 17,728515 / 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 Aldos 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: Aldo and Aldora.