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Haziel vs Hazle

American parents have registered 2,485 Hazles since 1880, against 1,719 Haziels. But in 2025 it was Haziel that was commoner, 331 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Haziel Hazle

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 106 years in which either name was published, Hazle for 75 years and Haziel for 31 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Haziel Hazle
Total US births 1,7192,485
Most in one year 33199
Babies in 2025 331under 5
Estimated living today 1,700320
Median age today 580
Peak year 20251924
Best rank 795th boys761st girls
Rank in 2025 795thunranked
First recorded 19921887
Girls / boys 19 / 1,7002,442 / 43

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 Hazles alive today are over 80; half the Haziels are over 5. That is 75 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: Haziel and Hazle.