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Jaziel vs Jazlene

American parents have registered 9,369 Jaziels since 1880, against 1,491 Jazlenes. Jaziel is still ahead, with 1,789 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaziel Jazlene

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 38 years in which either name was published, Jaziel for 34 years and Jazlene for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jaziel Jazlene
Total US births 9,3691,491
Most in one year 1,789340
Babies in 2025 1,78917
Estimated living today 9,3001,500
Median age today 315
Peak year 20252008
Best rank 198th boys833rd girls
Rank in 2025 198th6,546th
First recorded 19862000
Girls / boys 107 / 9,2621,491 / 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 Jazlenes alive today are over 15; half the Jaziels are over 3. That is 12 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: Jaziel and Jazlene.