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Aria vs Arin

American parents have registered 96,373 Arias since 1880, against 4,854 Arins. Aria is still ahead, with 6,152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aria Arin

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 92 years in which either name was published, Aria for 68 years and Arin for 24 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Aria Arin
Total US births 96,3734,854
Most in one year 7,454129
Babies in 2025 6,152107
Estimated living today 96,0004,700
Median age today 725
Peak year 20181997
Best rank 19th girls1,766th girls
Rank in 2025 26th4,172nd
First recorded 19001961
Girls / boys 95,674 / 6992,607 / 2,247

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 Arins alive today are over 25; half the Arias are over 7. That is 18 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Aria Arin
England and Wales 13,081646
France 5,810170
Scotland 2,37417
Switzerland 877188
Ireland 9358
Belgium 78435
Poland 2604

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: Aria and Arin.