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Aryanna vs Aryya

American parents have registered 9,435 Aryannas since 1880, against 56 Aryyas. Aryanna is still ahead, with 86 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aryanna Aryya

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 2023, when Aryanna had 102 and Aryya had 22.

Side by side

  Aryanna Aryya
Total US births 9,43556
Most in one year 57122
Babies in 2025 8615
Estimated living today 9,40060
Median age today 151
Peak year 20122023
Best rank 530th girls5,549th girls
Rank in 2025 2,153rd7,133rd
First recorded 19882023
Girls / boys 9,435 / 056 / 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 Aryyas are over 1. That is 14 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: Aryanna and Aryya.