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Ayda vs Aydin

American parents have registered 6,696 Aydins since 1880, against 1,535 Aydas. Aydin is still ahead, with 147 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ayda against Aydin, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ayda Aydin

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 42 years in which either name was published, Aydin for 33 years and Ayda for 9 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Ayda Aydin
Total US births 1,5356,696
Most in one year 102414
Babies in 2025 74147
Estimated living today 1,5006,600
Median age today 813
Peak year 20222008
Best rank 1,942nd girls629th boys
Rank in 2025 2,410th1,315th
First recorded 19681984
Girls / boys 1,535 / 0205 / 6,491

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 Aydins 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 Aydin
England and Wales 2,4771,554
France 325705
Ireland 43823
Scotland 348109
Belgium 36126
Switzerland 7655

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 Aydin.