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Hazen vs Hazley

American parents have registered 2,414 Hazens since 1880, against 687 Hazleys. Hazen is still ahead, with 97 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Hazen Hazley

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 111 years in which either name was published, Hazen for 107 years and Hazley for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Hazen Hazley
Total US births 2,414687
Most in one year 9790
Babies in 2025 9768
Estimated living today 1,700680
Median age today 114
Peak year 20242024
Best rank 1,735th boys2,118th girls
Rank in 2025 1,778th2,564th
First recorded 18962006
Girls / boys 87 / 2,327687 / 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 Hazens alive today are over 11; half the Hazleys are over 4. That is 7 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: Hazen and Hazley.