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Aizah vs Aizal

American parents have registered 640 Aizahs since 1880, against 176 Aizals. But in 2025 it was Aizal that was commoner, 51 babies to 21.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aizah against Aizal, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aizah Aizal

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 20 years in which either name was published, Aizah for 17 years and Aizal for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aizah Aizal
Total US births 640176
Most in one year 8055
Babies in 2025 2151
Estimated living today 640180
Median age today 81
Peak year 20162023
Best rank 2,343rd girls3,014th girls
Rank in 2025 5,722nd3,130th
First recorded 20062022
Girls / boys 640 / 0176 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Aizahs alive today are over 8; half the Aizals are over 1. That is 7 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 Aizah Aizal
England and Wales 2,415428
Scotland 7316
France 2040
Ireland 621

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: Aizah and Aizal.