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Aizal vs Aizen

American parents have registered 1,934 Aizens since 1880, against 176 Aizals. Aizen is still ahead, with 199 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aizal against Aizen, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aizal Aizen

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

Aizen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2007 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Aizal had 55 and Aizen had 190.

Side by side

  Aizal Aizen
Total US births 1761,934
Most in one year 55223
Babies in 2025 51199
Estimated living today 1801,900
Median age today 14
Peak year 20232024
Best rank 3,014th girls1,005th boys
Rank in 2025 3,130th1,081st
First recorded 20222007
Girls / boys 176 / 00 / 1,934

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 Aizens alive today are over 4; half the Aizals are over 1. That is 3 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 Aizal Aizen
England and Wales 42884
France 4045

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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Related comparisons

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