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Jeziah vs Jezreel

American parents have registered 890 Jezreels since 1880, against 709 Jeziahs. But in 2025 it was Jeziah that was commoner, 35 babies to 16.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jeziah against Jezreel, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jeziah Jezreel

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 42 years in which either name was published, Jezreel for 26 years and Jeziah for 16 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Jeziah Jezreel
Total US births 709890
Most in one year 5439
Babies in 2025 3516
Estimated living today 700880
Median age today 917
Peak year 20232007
Best rank 2,480th boys3,511th boys
Rank in 2025 3,314th5,608th
First recorded 20001977
Girls / boys 42 / 667209 / 681

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 Jezreels alive today are over 17; half the Jeziahs are over 9. 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jeziah Jezreel
England and Wales 4220

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jeziah and Jezreel.