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Azaan vs Azalea

American parents have registered 11,739 Azaleas since 1880, against 1,277 Azaans. Azalea is still ahead, with 1,109 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Azaan against Azalea, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Azaan Azalea

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

Azalea has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1902 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Azaan had 40 and Azalea had 136.

Side by side

  Azaan Azalea
Total US births 1,27711,739
Most in one year 971,109
Babies in 2025 671,109
Estimated living today 1,30011,000
Median age today 87
Peak year 20212025
Best rank 1,688th boys278th girls
Rank in 2025 2,145th278th
First recorded 19971902
Girls / boys 0 / 1,27711,739 / 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.

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 Azaan Azalea
England and Wales 2,164503
France 10565 Azaléa
Scotland 883
Ireland 143

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: Azaan and Azalea.