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Azlan vs Azlyn

American parents have registered 1,350 Azlans since 1880, against 939 Azlyns. Azlan is still ahead, with 234 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Azlan Azlyn

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 29 years in which either name was published, Azlyn for 20 years and Azlan for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Azlan Azlyn
Total US births 1,350939
Most in one year 23465
Babies in 2025 23431
Estimated living today 1,300930
Median age today 312
Peak year 20252015
Best rank 977th boys2,712th girls
Rank in 2025 977th4,460th
First recorded 20001991
Girls / boys 13 / 1,337939 / 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 Azlyns alive today are over 12; half the Azlans are over 3. That is 9 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: Azlan and Azlyn.