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Ayda vs Aydon

American parents have registered 1,535 Aydas since 1880, against 698 Aydons. Ayda is still ahead, with 74 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ayda against Aydon, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ayda Aydon

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 38 years in which either name was published, Ayda for 32 years and Aydon for 6 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Ayda Aydon
Total US births 1,535698
Most in one year 10255
Babies in 2025 745
Estimated living today 1,500690
Median age today 814
Peak year 20222011
Best rank 1,942nd girls2,317th boys
Rank in 2025 2,410th12,008th
First recorded 19681999
Girls / boys 1,535 / 00 / 698

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 Aydons alive today are over 14; half the Aydas 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 Ayda Aydon
England and Wales 2,47735
France 32545

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 Aydon.