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Azim vs Aziyah

American parents have registered 1,802 Aziyahs since 1880, against 605 Azims. Aziyah is still ahead, with 114 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Azim against Aziyah, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Azim Aziyah

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

Side by side

  Azim Aziyah
Total US births 6051,802
Most in one year 36114
Babies in 2025 36114
Estimated living today 5901,800
Median age today 1510
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 3,240th boys1,942nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,240th1,942nd
First recorded 19732001
Girls / boys 0 / 6051,696 / 106

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 Aziyahs are over 10. That is 5 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 Azim Aziyah
England and Wales 17035

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: Azim and Aziyah.