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Azalia vs Azayla

American parents have registered 2,328 Azalias since 1880, against 548 Azaylas. Azalia is still ahead, with 78 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Azalia against Azayla, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Azalia Azayla

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

Azalia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1898 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Azalia had 44 and Azayla had 33.

Side by side

  Azalia Azayla
Total US births 2,328548
Most in one year 9558
Babies in 2025 7858
Estimated living today 2,100550
Median age today 156
Peak year 20242025
Best rank 2,040th girls2,895th girls
Rank in 2025 2,326th2,895th
First recorded 18982002
Girls / boys 2,328 / 0548 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Azalias alive today are over 15; half the Azaylas are over 6. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Azalia and Azayla.