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Aryeh vs Aryia

American parents have registered 3,500 Aryehs since 1880, against 758 Aryias. Aryeh is still ahead, with 153 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aryeh against Aryia, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aryeh Aryia

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

Aryeh has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1954 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Aryeh had 119 and Aryia had 69.

Side by side

  Aryeh Aryia
Total US births 3,500758
Most in one year 15371
Babies in 2025 15330
Estimated living today 3,400750
Median age today 148
Peak year 20252019
Best rank 1,281st boys2,482nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,281st4,546th
First recorded 19542000
Girls / boys 5 / 3,495758 / 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 Aryehs alive today are over 14; half the Aryias are over 8. 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 Aryeh Aryia
England and Wales 16454

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: Aryeh and Aryia.