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Aryam vs Aryanna

American parents have registered 9,435 Aryannas since 1880, against 509 Aryams. Aryanna is still ahead, with 86 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aryam against Aryanna, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aryam Aryanna

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

Aryanna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1988 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Aryam had 31 and Aryanna had 86.

Side by side

  Aryam Aryanna
Total US births 5099,435
Most in one year 36571
Babies in 2025 3186
Estimated living today 5109,400
Median age today 915
Peak year 20122012
Best rank 4,601st girls530th girls
Rank in 2025 4,460th2,153rd
First recorded 20001988
Girls / boys 471 / 389,435 / 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 Aryannas alive today are over 15; half the Aryams are over 9. That is 6 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 Aryam Aryanna
France 16050
England and Wales 75133

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: Aryam and Aryanna.