Aranza vs Arav
American parents have registered 3,395 Aranzas since 1880, against 958 Aravs. Aranza is still ahead, with 144 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Aranza Arav
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 26 years and Arav for 8 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.
Side by side
| Aranza | Arav | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,395 | 958 |
| Most in one year | 476 | 78 |
| Babies in 2025 | 144 | 17 |
| Estimated living today | 3,400 | 950 |
| Median age today | 9 | 13 |
| Peak year | 2014 | 2008 |
| Best rank | 611th girls | 1,861st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,484th | 5,399th |
| First recorded | 1991 | 1999 |
| Girls / boys | 3,395 / 0 | 0 / 958 |
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 Aravs alive today are over 13; half the Aranzas are over 9. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Aranza Texas (4.8×), Arizona (4.8×), California (3.2×)
- Arav New Jersey (7.9×), California (4.2×), Illinois (2.1×)
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: Aranza and Arav.