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Arjan vs Arjunreddy

American parents have registered 1,001 Arjans since 1880, against 168 Arjunreddys. Arjan is still ahead, with 118 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arjan against Arjunreddy, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arjan Arjunreddy

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

Arjan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1990 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Arjan had 38 and Arjunreddy had 26.

Side by side

  Arjan Arjunreddy
Total US births 1,001168
Most in one year 11828
Babies in 2025 11828
Estimated living today 990170
Median age today 74
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 1,492nd boys3,848th boys
Rank in 2025 1,492nd3,848th
First recorded 19902017
Girls / boys 0 / 1,0010 / 168

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 Arjans alive today are over 7; half the Arjunreddys are over 4. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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