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Azariah vs Azaylie

American parents have registered 13,947 Azariahs since 1880, against 119 Azaylies. Azariah is still ahead, with 1,108 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Azariah Azaylie

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 2024, when Azariah had 1,059 and Azaylie had 48.

Side by side

  Azariah Azaylie
Total US births 13,947119
Most in one year 1,10848
Babies in 2025 1,10832
Estimated living today 14,000120
Median age today 71
Peak year 20232024
Best rank 563rd girls3,277th girls
Rank in 2025 630th4,352nd
First recorded 19722023
Girls / boys 7,389 / 6,558119 / 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 Azariahs alive today are over 7; half the Azaylies are over 1. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Azariah and Azaylie.