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Jaziel vs Jaziyah

American parents have registered 9,369 Jaziels since 1880, against 1,191 Jaziyahs. Jaziel is still ahead, with 1,789 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaziel Jaziyah

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

Jaziel 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 2008, when Jaziel had 78 and Jaziyah had 61.

Side by side

  Jaziel Jaziyah
Total US births 9,3691,191
Most in one year 1,78989
Babies in 2025 1,78976
Estimated living today 9,3001,200
Median age today 311
Peak year 20252011
Best rank 198th boys2,143rd girls
Rank in 2025 198th2,368th
First recorded 19862002
Girls / boys 107 / 9,2621,148 / 43

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 Jaziyahs alive today are over 11; half the Jaziels are over 3. That is 8 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: Jaziel and Jaziyah.