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Lazaria vs Lazaro

American parents have registered 7,118 Lazaros since 1880, against 523 Lazarias. Lazaro is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lazaria against Lazaro, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lazaria Lazaro

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

Lazaro has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1911 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Lazaria had 36 and Lazaro had 112.

Side by side

  Lazaria Lazaro
Total US births 5237,118
Most in one year 36143
Babies in 2025 9117
Estimated living today 5206,300
Median age today 1828
Peak year 20092004
Best rank 4,196th girls1,101st boys
Rank in 2025 10,107th1,499th
First recorded 19961911
Girls / boys 523 / 00 / 7,118

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 Lazaros alive today are over 28; half the Lazarias are over 18. That is 10 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: Lazaria and Lazaro.