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Azalea vs Azaliah

American parents have registered 11,739 Azaleas since 1880, against 523 Azaliahs. Azalea is still ahead, with 1,109 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Azalea against Azaliah, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Azalea Azaliah

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

Azalea has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1902 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Azalea had 128 and Azaliah had 22.

Side by side

  Azalea Azaliah
Total US births 11,739523
Most in one year 1,10959
Babies in 2025 1,10959
Estimated living today 11,000520
Median age today 78
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 278th girls2,859th girls
Rank in 2025 278th2,859th
First recorded 19022002
Girls / boys 11,739 / 0523 / 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.

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 Azalea Azaliah
England and Wales 50327

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: Azalea and Azaliah.