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Azim vs Aziza

American parents have registered 1,991 Azizas since 1880, against 605 Azims. Aziza is still ahead, with 73 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Azim Aziza

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 53 years in which either name was published, Aziza for 52 years and Azim for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Azim Aziza
Total US births 6051,991
Most in one year 3673
Babies in 2025 3673
Estimated living today 5902,000
Median age today 1519
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 3,240th boys2,442nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,240th2,438th
First recorded 19731973
Girls / boys 0 / 6051,991 / 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 Azizas alive today are over 19; half the Azims are over 15. That is 4 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 Aziza
France 1252,065
England and Wales 170300
Switzerland 1130

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 Aziza.