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Aziah vs Azir

American parents have registered 1,974 Aziahs since 1880, against 594 Azirs. Aziah is still ahead, with 210 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aziah against Azir, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aziah Azir

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

Aziah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1992 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Aziah had 136 and Azir had 91.

Side by side

  Aziah Azir
Total US births 1,974594
Most in one year 21095
Babies in 2025 21095
Estimated living today 2,000590
Median age today 84
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 1,227th boys1,708th boys
Rank in 2025 1,227th1,708th
First recorded 19922001
Girls / boys 900 / 1,0740 / 594

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 Aziahs alive today are over 8; half the Azirs are over 4. 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.

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