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Hazelle vs Hazen

American parents have registered 2,414 Hazens since 1880, against 932 Hazelles. Hazen is still ahead, with 97 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Hazelle Hazen

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 123 years in which either name was published, Hazen for 94 years and Hazelle for 29 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Hazelle Hazen
Total US births 9322,414
Most in one year 3497
Babies in 2025 2097
Estimated living today 3901,700
Median age today 1011
Peak year 19142024
Best rank 1,023rd girls1,735th boys
Rank in 2025 5,917th1,778th
First recorded 18881896
Girls / boys 932 / 087 / 2,327

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.

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: Hazelle and Hazen.