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Arjun vs Arjunreddy

American parents have registered 12,176 Arjuns since 1880, against 168 Arjunreddys. Arjun is still ahead, with 615 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arjun against Arjunreddy, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arjun 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

Arjun has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1967 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Arjun had 615 and Arjunreddy had 28.

Side by side

  Arjun Arjunreddy
Total US births 12,176168
Most in one year 65028
Babies in 2025 61528
Estimated living today 12,000170
Median age today 114
Peak year 20142025
Best rank 455th boys3,848th boys
Rank in 2025 490th3,848th
First recorded 19672017
Girls / boys 0 / 12,1760 / 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 Arjuns alive today are over 11; half the Arjunreddys are over 4. That is 7 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: Arjun and Arjunreddy.