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Jazel vs Jazlynn

American parents have registered 8,090 Jazlynns since 1880, against 693 Jazels. Jazlynn is still ahead, with 233 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jazel against Jazlynn, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jazel Jazlynn

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

Jazlynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1986 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1986, when Jazel had 5 and Jazlynn had 6.

Side by side

  Jazel Jazlynn
Total US births 6938,090
Most in one year 50510
Babies in 2025 7233
Estimated living today 6908,000
Median age today 1613
Peak year 20092011
Best rank 3,298th girls570th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd1,057th
First recorded 19861986
Girls / boys 672 / 218,090 / 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 Jazlynns 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 Jazlynn.