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Azim vs Aziz

American parents have registered 1,849 Azizes since 1880, against 605 Azims. Aziz is still ahead, with 75 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Azim against Aziz, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Azim Aziz

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 53 years in which either name was published, Aziz for 50 years and Azim for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Azim Aziz
Total US births 6051,849
Most in one year 3695
Babies in 2025 3675
Estimated living today 5901,800
Median age today 1514
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 3,240th boys1,735th boys
Rank in 2025 3,240th2,006th
First recorded 19731972
Girls / boys 0 / 6050 / 1,849

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Azim Aziz
France 1254,020
England and Wales 170353
Switzerland 1197

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: Azim and Aziz.