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Aria vs Arick

American parents have registered 96,373 Arias since 1880, against 942 Aricks. Aria is still ahead, with 6,152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aria against Arick, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aria Arick

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 93 years in which either name was published, Aria for 83 years and Arick for 10 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Aria Arick
Total US births 96,373942
Most in one year 7,45438
Babies in 2025 6,152under 5
Estimated living today 96,000900
Median age today 732
Peak year 20181993
Best rank 19th girls2,091st boys
Rank in 2025 26thunranked
First recorded 19001961
Girls / boys 95,674 / 6990 / 942

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 Aricks alive today are over 32; half the Arias are over 7. That is 25 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: Aria and Arick.