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Aziah vs Aziya

American parents have registered 1,974 Aziahs since 1880, against 591 Aziyas. Aziah is still ahead, with 210 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aziah Aziya

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 2007, when Aziah had 58 and Aziya had 29.

Side by side

  Aziah Aziya
Total US births 1,974591
Most in one year 21047
Babies in 2025 21041
Estimated living today 2,000590
Median age today 810
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 1,227th boys3,335th girls
Rank in 2025 1,227th3,645th
First recorded 19922001
Girls / boys 900 / 1,074591 / 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 Aziyas alive today are over 10; half the Aziahs are over 8. That is 2 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: Aziah and Aziya.