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Aziah vs Azim

American parents have registered 1,974 Aziahs since 1880, against 605 Azims. Aziah is still ahead, with 210 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aziah against Azim, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aziah 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 49 years in which either name was published, Aziah for 29 years and Azim for 20 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aziah Azim
Total US births 1,974605
Most in one year 21036
Babies in 2025 21036
Estimated living today 2,000590
Median age today 815
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 1,227th boys3,240th boys
Rank in 2025 1,227th3,240th
First recorded 19921973
Girls / boys 900 / 1,0740 / 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 Azims alive today are over 15; half the Aziahs are over 8. That is 7 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 Aziah Azim
England and Wales 283170

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: Aziah and Azim.