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Astoria vs Astria

American parents have registered 727 Astorias since 1880, against 76 Astrias. Astoria is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Astoria against Astria, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Astoria Astria

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 37 years in which either name was published, Astoria for 31 years and Astria for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Astoria Astria
Total US births 72776
Most in one year 9824
Babies in 2025 835
Estimated living today 72070
Median age today 545
Peak year 20241978
Best rank 1,997th girls3,196th girls
Rank in 2025 2,214th14,942nd
First recorded 19911978
Girls / boys 727 / 076 / 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 Astrias alive today are over 45; half the Astorias are over 5. That is 40 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: Astoria and Astria.