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Azari vs Azayla

American parents have registered 2,872 Azaris since 1880, against 548 Azaylas. Azari is still ahead, with 435 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Azari 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

Azari has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1998 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Azari had 12 and Azayla had 9.

Side by side

  Azari Azayla
Total US births 2,872548
Most in one year 51558
Babies in 2025 43558
Estimated living today 2,900550
Median age today 36
Peak year 20232025
Best rank 695th girls2,895th girls
Rank in 2025 766th2,895th
First recorded 19982002
Girls / boys 2,040 / 832548 / 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 Azaylas alive today are over 6; half the Azaris are over 3. That is 3 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: Azari and Azayla.