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Arya vs Arynn

American parents have registered 31,871 Aryas since 1880, against 515 Arynns. Arya is still ahead, with 1,912 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arya against Arynn, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arya Arynn

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 45 years in which either name was published, Arya for 44 years and Arynn for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Arya Arynn
Total US births 31,871515
Most in one year 3,10033
Babies in 2025 1,9129
Estimated living today 32,000510
Median age today 616
Peak year 20192016
Best rank 92nd girls4,345th girls
Rank in 2025 158th10,107th
First recorded 19821977
Girls / boys 29,536 / 2,335515 / 0

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 Arynns alive today are over 16; half the Aryas are over 6. That is 10 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: Arya and Arynn.