Arsalan vs Arsen

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Arsalan Arsen

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 42 years in which either name was published, Arsalan for 22 years and Arsen for 20 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

• 1913–1930 Arsen ahead
• 1985–1992 Arsalan ahead
• 1993 Arsen ahead
• 1994–1996 Arsalan ahead
• 1997 Arsen ahead
• 1998–2002 Arsalan ahead
• 2003–2004 Arsen ahead
• 2005–2006 Arsalan ahead
• 2007–2019 Arsen ahead
• 2020–2025 Arsalan ahead

Side by side

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 Arsens alive today are over 10; half the Arsalans are over 7. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Arsalan California (5.9×), Virginia (5.6×), Texas (2.5×)
• Arsen California (9.3×)

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.

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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