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Asaad vs Asael

American parents have registered 1,644 Asaels since 1880, against 866 Asaads. Asael is still ahead, with 89 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Asaad against Asael, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Asaad Asael

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 48 years in which either name was published, Asael for 39 years and Asaad for 9 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Asaad Asael
Total US births 8661,644
Most in one year 7689
Babies in 2025 4989
Estimated living today 8601,600
Median age today 715
Peak year 20222025
Best rank 2,000th boys1,793rd boys
Rank in 2025 2,641st1,793rd
First recorded 19821975
Girls / boys 0 / 8660 / 1,644

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 Asaels alive today are over 15; half the Asaads are over 7. 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 Asaad Asael
France 25580 Asaƫl
England and Wales 1030

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: Asaad and Asael.