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Aryan vs Arynn

American parents have registered 8,854 Aryans since 1880, against 515 Arynns. Aryan is still ahead, with 280 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aryan against Arynn, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aryan 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 47 years in which either name was published, Aryan for 44 years and Arynn for 3 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Aryan Arynn
Total US births 8,854515
Most in one year 43333
Babies in 2025 2809
Estimated living today 8,800510
Median age today 1216
Peak year 20072016
Best rank 613th boys4,345th girls
Rank in 2025 871st10,107th
First recorded 19781977
Girls / boys 748 / 8,106515 / 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 Aryans are over 12. That is 4 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: Aryan and Arynn.