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Aziel vs Aziyah

American parents have registered 8,796 Aziels since 1880, against 1,802 Aziyahs. Aziel is still ahead, with 1,989 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aziel against Aziyah, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aziel Aziyah

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 32 years in which either name was published, Aziel for 20 years and Aziyah for 12 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Aziel Aziyah
Total US births 8,7961,802
Most in one year 1,989114
Babies in 2025 1,989114
Estimated living today 8,7001,800
Median age today 210
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 186th boys1,942nd girls
Rank in 2025 186th1,942nd
First recorded 19912001
Girls / boys 75 / 8,7211,696 / 106

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 Aziyahs alive today are over 10; half the Aziels are over 2. That is 8 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aziel Aziyah
England and Wales 22835

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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