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Azalea vs Azaleah

American parents have registered 11,739 Azaleas since 1880, against 713 Azaleahs. Azalea is still ahead, with 1,109 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Azalea Azaleah

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 2010, when Azalea had 165 and Azaleah had 24.

Side by side

  Azalea Azaleah
Total US births 11,739713
Most in one year 1,10949
Babies in 2025 1,10946
Estimated living today 11,000710
Median age today 78
Peak year 20252013
Best rank 278th girls3,267th girls
Rank in 2025 278th3,342nd
First recorded 19022000
Girls / boys 11,739 / 0713 / 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 Azalea Azaleah
England and Wales 50312

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: Azalea and Azaleah.