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Aldo vs Aldrich

American parents have registered 17,743 Aldos since 1880, against 614 Aldriches. Aldo is still ahead, with 241 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aldo Aldrich

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 120 years in which either name was published, Aldo for 119 years and Aldrich for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Aldo Aldrich
Total US births 17,743614
Most in one year 66618
Babies in 2025 2416
Estimated living today 15,000380
Median age today 1920
Peak year 20072017
Best rank 430th boys5,111th boys
Rank in 2025 960th10,695th
First recorded 19061909
Girls / boys 15 / 17,7280 / 614

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Aldo Aldrich
England and Wales 1676

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: Aldo and Aldrich.