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Jazel vs Jazlyn

American parents have registered 17,490 Jazlyns since 1880, against 693 Jazels. Jazlyn is still ahead, with 563 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jazel against Jazlyn, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jazel Jazlyn

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

Jazlyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1981 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1986, when Jazel had 5 and Jazlyn had 11.

Side by side

  Jazel Jazlyn
Total US births 69317,490
Most in one year 50860
Babies in 2025 7563
Estimated living today 69017,000
Median age today 1613
Peak year 20092008
Best rank 3,298th girls378th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd537th
First recorded 19861981
Girls / boys 672 / 2117,490 / 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 Jazels alive today are over 16; half the Jazlyns are over 13. That is 3 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 Jazlyn.