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Azael vs Azara

American parents have registered 3,947 Azaels since 1880, against 790 Azaras. Azael is still ahead, with 432 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Azael against Azara, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Azael Azara

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

Azael has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Azael had 117 and Azara had 38.

Side by side

  Azael Azara
Total US births 3,947790
Most in one year 432119
Babies in 2025 432119
Estimated living today 3,900790
Median age today 64
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 645th boys1,710th girls
Rank in 2025 645th1,710th
First recorded 19772000
Girls / boys 0 / 3,947790 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Azaels alive today are over 6; half the Azaras are over 4. That is 2 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 Azael Azara
England and Wales 2353

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: Azael and Azara.