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Ayaan vs Ayaansh

American parents have registered 9,154 Ayaans since 1880, against 587 Ayaanshes. Ayaan is still ahead, with 686 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ayaan against Ayaansh, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ayaan Ayaansh

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

Ayaan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1995 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Ayaan had 432 and Ayaansh had 74.

Side by side

  Ayaan Ayaansh
Total US births 9,154587
Most in one year 68674
Babies in 2025 68628
Estimated living today 9,100580
Median age today 76
Peak year 20252016
Best rank 465th boys1,959th boys
Rank in 2025 465th3,848th
First recorded 19952011
Girls / boys 251 / 8,9030 / 587

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.

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 Ayaan Ayaansh
England and Wales 8,71491

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: Ayaan and Ayaansh.