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Ayda vs Aydenn

American parents have registered 1,535 Aydas since 1880, against 717 Aydenns. Ayda is still ahead, with 74 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ayda Aydenn

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, Ayda for 32 years and Aydenn for 5 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Ayda Aydenn
Total US births 1,535717
Most in one year 102147
Babies in 2025 746
Estimated living today 1,500710
Median age today 813
Peak year 20222011
Best rank 1,942nd girls1,198th boys
Rank in 2025 2,410th10,695th
First recorded 19682004
Girls / boys 1,535 / 013 / 704

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 Aydenns alive today are over 13; half the Aydas are over 8. That is 5 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 Ayda Aydenn
England and Wales 2,4773
France 325250

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: Ayda and Aydenn.