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Azia vs Azim

American parents have registered 1,434 Azias since 1880, against 605 Azims. But in 2025 it was Azim that was commoner, 36 babies to 24.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Azia against Azim, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Azia Azim

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 50 years in which either name was published, Azia for 35 years and Azim for 15 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Azia Azim
Total US births 1,434605
Most in one year 7436
Babies in 2025 2436
Estimated living today 1,400590
Median age today 2515
Peak year 19992025
Best rank 2,073rd girls3,240th boys
Rank in 2025 5,238th3,240th
First recorded 19801973
Girls / boys 1,434 / 00 / 605

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 Azias alive today are over 25; half the Azims are over 15. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Azia Azim
France 75125
England and Wales 10170

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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