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Jazel vs Jaziel

American parents have registered 9,369 Jaziels since 1880, against 693 Jazels. Jaziel is still ahead, with 1,789 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jazel against Jaziel, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jazel Jaziel

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 39 years in which either name was published, Jaziel for 37 years and Jazel for 2 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jazel Jaziel
Total US births 6939,369
Most in one year 501,789
Babies in 2025 71,789
Estimated living today 6909,300
Median age today 163
Peak year 20092025
Best rank 3,298th girls198th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932nd198th
First recorded 19861986
Girls / boys 672 / 21107 / 9,262

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 Jazels alive today are over 16; half the Jaziels are over 3. That is 13 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: Jazel and Jaziel.