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Jaziel vs Jazzlyn

American parents have registered 9,369 Jaziels since 1880, against 4,303 Jazzlyns. Jaziel is still ahead, with 1,789 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaziel Jazzlyn

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 43 years in which either name was published, Jazzlyn for 32 years and Jaziel for 11 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jaziel Jazzlyn
Total US births 9,3694,303
Most in one year 1,789267
Babies in 2025 1,789101
Estimated living today 9,3004,300
Median age today 313
Peak year 20252012
Best rank 198th boys951st girls
Rank in 2025 198th1,911th
First recorded 19861983
Girls / boys 107 / 9,2624,303 / 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 Jazzlyns alive today are over 13; half the Jaziels are over 3. That is 10 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 Jaziel Jazzlyn
England and Wales 4616

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: Jaziel and Jazzlyn.