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Azia vs Azien

American parents have registered 1,434 Azias since 1880, against 22 Aziens. Azia is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Azia Azien

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

Azia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1980 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Azia had 24 and Azien had 22.

Side by side

  Azia Azien
Total US births 1,43422
Most in one year 7422
Babies in 2025 2422
Estimated living today 1,40020
Median age today 250
Peak year 19992025
Best rank 2,073rd girls4,539th boys
Rank in 2025 5,238th4,539th
First recorded 19802025
Girls / boys 1,434 / 00 / 22

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 Azias alive today are over 25; half the Aziens have not had a first birthday. That is 25 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: Azia and Azien.