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Azalee vs Azaria

American parents have registered 7,827 Azarias since 1880, against 1,526 Azalees. Azaria is still ahead, with 469 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Azalee 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

Of the 100 years in which either name was published, Azalee for 62 years and Azaria for 38 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Azalee Azaria
Total US births 1,5267,827
Most in one year 50469
Babies in 2025 14469
Estimated living today 5607,800
Median age today 1612
Peak year 19242025
Best rank 1,107th girls638th girls
Rank in 2025 7,491st638th
First recorded 18971988
Girls / boys 1,526 / 07,603 / 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 Azalees alive today are over 16; half the Azarias are over 12. That is 4 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 Azalee Azaria
France 160 Azalée130

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: Azalee and Azaria.