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Azaleah vs Azari

American parents have registered 2,872 Azaris since 1880, against 713 Azaleahs. Azari is still ahead, with 435 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Azaleah 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 27 years in which either name was published, Azari for 25 years and Azaleah for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Azaleah Azari
Total US births 7132,872
Most in one year 49515
Babies in 2025 46435
Estimated living today 7102,900
Median age today 83
Peak year 20132023
Best rank 3,267th girls695th girls
Rank in 2025 3,342nd766th
First recorded 20001998
Girls / boys 713 / 02,040 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Azaleahs alive today are over 8; half the Azaris are over 3. That is 5 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 Azaleah Azari
England and Wales 12179

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: Azaleah and Azari.