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Azeem vs Azeneth

American parents have registered 1,573 Azeneths since 1880, against 642 Azeems. Azeneth is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Azeem against Azeneth, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Azeem Azeneth

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

Of the 46 years in which either name was published, Azeneth for 26 years and Azeem for 20 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Azeem Azeneth
Total US births 6421,573
Most in one year 33161
Babies in 2025 2395
Estimated living today 6301,600
Median age today 158
Peak year 20232003
Best rank 3,474th boys1,291st girls
Rank in 2025 4,396th2,002nd
First recorded 19791969
Girls / boys 0 / 6421,573 / 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 Azeems alive today are over 15; half the Azeneths are over 8. That is 7 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.

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