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Hazelgrace vs Hazelle

American parents have registered 932 Hazelles since 1880, against 171 Hazelgraces. Hazelle is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hazelgrace against Hazelle, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hazelgrace 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 64 years in which either name was published, Hazelle for 61 years and Hazelgrace for 3 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Hazelgrace Hazelle
Total US births 171932
Most in one year 2334
Babies in 2025 1220
Estimated living today 170390
Median age today 610
Peak year 20171914
Best rank 5,517th girls1,023rd girls
Rank in 2025 8,362nd5,917th
First recorded 20151888
Girls / boys 171 / 0932 / 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 Hazelgraces are over 6. 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: Hazelgrace and Hazelle.