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Arantza vs Aranza

American parents have registered 3,395 Aranzas since 1880, against 1,223 Arantzas. Aranza is still ahead, with 144 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Arantza 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

Aranza has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1991 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Arantza had 19 and Aranza had 23.

Side by side

  Arantza Aranza
Total US births 1,2233,395
Most in one year 179476
Babies in 2025 58144
Estimated living today 1,2003,400
Median age today 99
Peak year 20142014
Best rank 1,321st girls611th girls
Rank in 2025 2,895th1,484th
First recorded 19961991
Girls / boys 1,223 / 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.

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: Arantza and Aranza.