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Mazen vs Mazi

American parents have registered 1,439 Mazens since 1880, against 1,301 Mazis. But in 2025 it was Mazi that was commoner, 176 babies to 52.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mazen against Mazi, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mazen Mazi

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 53 years in which either name was published, Mazen for 45 years and Mazi for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Mazen Mazi
Total US births 1,4391,301
Most in one year 65217
Babies in 2025 52176
Estimated living today 1,4001,300
Median age today 133
Peak year 20242023
Best rank 2,210th boys1,084th boys
Rank in 2025 2,539th1,241st
First recorded 19711977
Girls / boys 0 / 1,439210 / 1,091

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 Mazens alive today are over 13; half the Mazis are over 3. 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: Mazen and Mazi.