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Jaziel vs Jazzlynn

American parents have registered 9,369 Jaziels since 1880, against 1,683 Jazzlynns. Jaziel is still ahead, with 1,789 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaziel Jazzlynn

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 40 years in which either name was published, Jaziel for 30 years and Jazzlynn for 10 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.

14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Jaziel Jazzlynn
Total US births 9,3691,683
Most in one year 1,789125
Babies in 2025 1,78940
Estimated living today 9,3001,700
Median age today 314
Peak year 20252012
Best rank 198th boys1,685th girls
Rank in 2025 198th3,712th
First recorded 19861984
Girls / boys 107 / 9,2621,683 / 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 Jazzlynns alive today are over 14; half the Jaziels are over 3. That is 11 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 Jazzlynn.