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Disaya vs Disha

American parents have registered 793 Dishas since 1880, against 67 Disayas. Disha is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Disaya against Disha, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Disaya Disha

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

Disha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Disaya had 20 and Disha had 31.

Side by side

  Disaya Disha
Total US births 67793
Most in one year 2049
Babies in 2025 under 510
Estimated living today 70790
Median age today 1818
Peak year 20062005
Best rank 6,356th girls3,170th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked9,457th
First recorded 20061975
Girls / boys 67 / 0793 / 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Disaya and Disha.