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Aziel vs Azim

American parents have registered 8,796 Aziels since 1880, against 605 Azims. Aziel is still ahead, with 1,989 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aziel against Azim, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aziel 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, Aziel for 25 years and Azim for 24 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aziel Azim
Total US births 8,796605
Most in one year 1,98936
Babies in 2025 1,98936
Estimated living today 8,700590
Median age today 215
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 186th boys3,240th boys
Rank in 2025 186th3,240th
First recorded 19911973
Girls / boys 75 / 8,7210 / 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 Aziels are over 2. That is 13 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 Aziel Azim
England and Wales 228170
France 85125
Switzerland 711

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: Aziel and Azim.