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Azara vs Azariah

American parents have registered 13,947 Azariahs since 1880, against 790 Azaras. Azariah is still ahead, with 1,108 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Azara Azariah

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

Azariah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Azara had 119 and Azariah had 1,108.

Side by side

  Azara Azariah
Total US births 79013,947
Most in one year 1191,108
Babies in 2025 1191,108
Estimated living today 79014,000
Median age today 47
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 1,710th girls563rd girls
Rank in 2025 1,710th630th
First recorded 20001972
Girls / boys 790 / 07,389 / 6,558

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 Azariahs alive today are over 7; half the Azaras are over 4. That is 3 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 Azara Azariah
England and Wales 53831

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: Azara and Azariah.