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Hazelle vs Haziel

American parents have registered 1,719 Haziels since 1880, against 932 Hazelles. Haziel is still ahead, with 331 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Hazelle 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 71 years in which either name was published, Hazelle for 40 years and Haziel for 31 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Hazelle Haziel
Total US births 9321,719
Most in one year 34331
Babies in 2025 20331
Estimated living today 3901,700
Median age today 105
Peak year 19142025
Best rank 1,023rd girls795th boys
Rank in 2025 5,917th795th
First recorded 18881992
Girls / boys 932 / 019 / 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 Hazelles alive today are over 10; half the Haziels 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Hazelle Haziel
France 525

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: Hazelle and Haziel.