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Azeira vs Azelia

American parents have registered 518 Azelias since 1880, against 74 Azeiras. Azelia is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Azeira against Azelia, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Azeira Azelia

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 35 years in which either name was published, Azelia for 34 years and Azeira for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Azeira Azelia
Total US births 74518
Most in one year 6639
Babies in 2025 828
Estimated living today 70490
Median age today 110
Peak year 20242024
Best rank 2,637th girls3,822nd girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th4,758th
First recorded 20241918
Girls / boys 74 / 0518 / 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 Azelias alive today are over 10; half the Azeiras are over 1. 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: Azeira and Azelia.