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Faiz vs Faiza

American parents have registered 1,059 Faizas since 1880, against 564 Faizes. Faiza is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Faiz against Faiza, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Faiz Faiza

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 50 years in which either name was published, Faiza for 44 years and Faiz for 6 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Faiz Faiza
Total US births 5641,059
Most in one year 2843
Babies in 2025 1635
Estimated living today 5501,000
Median age today 1816
Peak year 20042017
Best rank 3,368th boys3,552nd girls
Rank in 2025 5,608th4,067th
First recorded 19771973
Girls / boys 0 / 5641,059 / 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 Faizes alive today are over 18; half the Faizas are over 16. That is 2 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 Faiz Faiza
France 5003,130
England and Wales 4011,297

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: Faiz and Faiza.