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Aralynn vs Aranza

American parents have registered 3,395 Aranzas since 1880, against 842 Aralynns. Aranza is still ahead, with 144 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aralynn against Aranza, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aralynn Aranza

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 34 years in which either name was published, Aranza for 30 years and Aralynn for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Aralynn Aranza
Total US births 8423,395
Most in one year 84476
Babies in 2025 27144
Estimated living today 8403,400
Median age today 119
Peak year 20132014
Best rank 2,211th girls611th girls
Rank in 2025 4,878th1,484th
First recorded 20031991
Girls / boys 842 / 03,395 / 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 Aralynns alive today are over 11; half the Aranzas are over 9. That is 2 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aralynn and Aranza.