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Hazael vs Haziel

American parents have registered 1,719 Haziels since 1880, against 698 Hazaels. Haziel is still ahead, with 331 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hazael against Haziel, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hazael Haziel

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 37 years in which either name was published, Haziel for 22 years and Hazael for 15 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Hazael Haziel
Total US births 6981,719
Most in one year 44331
Babies in 2025 38331
Estimated living today 6901,700
Median age today 115
Peak year 20242025
Best rank 3,335th boys795th boys
Rank in 2025 3,513th795th
First recorded 19831992
Girls / boys 70 / 62819 / 1,700

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 Haziels 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 Haziel
France 65 Hazaƫl25
England and Wales 1317

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 Haziel.