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Jazelle vs Jaziel

American parents have registered 9,369 Jaziels since 1880, against 3,180 Jazelles. Jaziel is still ahead, with 1,789 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jazelle against Jaziel, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jazelle Jaziel

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 45 years in which either name was published, Jaziel for 24 years and Jazelle for 21 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Jazelle Jaziel
Total US births 3,1809,369
Most in one year 1851,789
Babies in 2025 741,789
Estimated living today 3,2009,300
Median age today 123
Peak year 20072025
Best rank 1,317th girls198th boys
Rank in 2025 2,410th198th
First recorded 19531986
Girls / boys 3,180 / 0107 / 9,262

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 Jazelles alive today are over 12; half the Jaziels are over 3. That is 9 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: Jazelle and Jaziel.