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Hazelgrace vs Haziel

American parents have registered 1,719 Haziels since 1880, against 171 Hazelgraces. Haziel is still ahead, with 331 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hazelgrace against Haziel, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hazelgrace Haziel

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

Haziel has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1992 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Hazelgrace had 22 and Haziel had 44.

Side by side

  Hazelgrace Haziel
Total US births 1711,719
Most in one year 23331
Babies in 2025 12331
Estimated living today 1701,700
Median age today 65
Peak year 20172025
Best rank 5,517th girls795th boys
Rank in 2025 8,362nd795th
First recorded 20151992
Girls / boys 171 / 019 / 1,700

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.

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