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Azai vs Azari

American parents have registered 2,872 Azaris since 1880, against 1,600 Azais. Azari is still ahead, with 435 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Azai against Azari, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Azai Azari

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 26 years in which either name was published, Azari for 24 years and Azai for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Azai Azari
Total US births 1,6002,872
Most in one year 318515
Babies in 2025 318435
Estimated living today 1,6002,900
Median age today 33
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 809th boys695th girls
Rank in 2025 809th766th
First recorded 20081998
Girls / boys 26 / 1,5742,040 / 832

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.

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 Azai Azari
England and Wales 147179

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: Azai and Azari.