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Maze vs Mazikeen

American parents have registered 1,556 Mazikeens since 1880, against 543 Mazes. Mazikeen is still ahead, with 128 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maze against Mazikeen, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maze Mazikeen

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 19 years in which either name was published, Maze for 10 years and Mazikeen for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Maze Mazikeen
Total US births 5431,556
Most in one year 79281
Babies in 2025 79128
Estimated living today 5401,500
Median age today 44
Peak year 20252021
Best rank 2,451st boys941st girls
Rank in 2025 2,451st1,622nd
First recorded 19222016
Girls / boys 191 / 3521,545 / 11

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Maze Mazikeen
England and Wales 16101
France 3535

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: Maze and Mazikeen.