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Azai vs Azaria

American parents have registered 7,827 Azarias since 1880, against 1,600 Azais. Azaria is still ahead, with 469 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Azai against Azaria, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Azai Azaria

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

Azaria has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1988 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Azai had 318 and Azaria had 469.

Side by side

  Azai Azaria
Total US births 1,6007,827
Most in one year 318469
Babies in 2025 318469
Estimated living today 1,6007,800
Median age today 312
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 809th boys638th girls
Rank in 2025 809th638th
First recorded 20081988
Girls / boys 26 / 1,5747,603 / 224

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 Azarias alive today are over 12; half the Azais are over 3. That is 9 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 Azai Azaria
England and Wales 147496

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 Azaria.