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Hazael vs Haze

American parents have registered 1,342 Hazes since 1880, against 698 Hazaels. Haze is still ahead, with 136 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hazael against Haze, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hazael Haze

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 54 years in which either name was published, Haze for 35 years and Hazael for 19 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Hazael Haze
Total US births 6981,342
Most in one year 44150
Babies in 2025 38136
Estimated living today 6901,200
Median age today 115
Peak year 20242023
Best rank 3,335th boys1,380th boys
Rank in 2025 3,513th1,425th
First recorded 19831912
Girls / boys 70 / 628110 / 1,232

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 Hazaels alive today are over 11; half the Hazes are over 5. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Hazael Haze
England and Wales 1336

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: Hazael and Haze.