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Aziya vs Aziza

American parents have registered 1,991 Azizas since 1880, against 591 Aziyas. Aziza is still ahead, with 73 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aziya Aziza

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

Aziza has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Aziya had 32 and Aziza had 38.

Side by side

  Aziya Aziza
Total US births 5911,991
Most in one year 4773
Babies in 2025 4173
Estimated living today 5902,000
Median age today 1019
Peak year 20242023
Best rank 3,335th girls2,442nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,645th2,438th
First recorded 20011973
Girls / boys 591 / 01,991 / 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 Azizas alive today are over 19; half the Aziyas are over 10. That is 9 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: Aziya and Aziza.