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Aziya vs Aziz

American parents have registered 1,849 Azizes since 1880, against 591 Aziyas. Aziz is still ahead, with 75 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aziya against Aziz, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aziya Aziz

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

Aziz has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Aziya had 23 and Aziz had 24.

Side by side

  Aziya Aziz
Total US births 5911,849
Most in one year 4795
Babies in 2025 4175
Estimated living today 5901,800
Median age today 1014
Peak year 20242024
Best rank 3,335th girls1,735th boys
Rank in 2025 3,645th2,006th
First recorded 20011972
Girls / boys 591 / 00 / 1,849

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 Azizes alive today are over 14; half the Aziyas are over 10. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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