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Haze vs Hazelle

American parents have registered 1,342 Hazes since 1880, against 932 Hazelles. Haze is still ahead, with 136 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Haze Hazelle

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 72 years in which either name was published, Hazelle for 41 years and Haze for 31 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Haze Hazelle
Total US births 1,342932
Most in one year 15034
Babies in 2025 13620
Estimated living today 1,200390
Median age today 510
Peak year 20231914
Best rank 1,380th boys1,023rd girls
Rank in 2025 1,425th5,917th
First recorded 19121888
Girls / boys 110 / 1,232932 / 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 Hazelles alive today are over 10; half the Hazes are over 5. That is 5 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.

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