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Azelia vs Azeneth

American parents have registered 1,573 Azeneths since 1880, against 518 Azelias. Azeneth is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Azelia 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 34 years and Azelia for 12 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Azelia Azeneth
Total US births 5181,573
Most in one year 39161
Babies in 2025 2895
Estimated living today 4901,600
Median age today 108
Peak year 20242003
Best rank 3,822nd girls1,291st girls
Rank in 2025 4,758th2,002nd
First recorded 19181969
Girls / boys 518 / 01,573 / 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 Azelias alive today are over 10; half the Azeneths are over 8. 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.

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