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Maze vs Mazzy

American parents have registered 938 Mazzys since 1880, against 543 Mazes. But in 2025 it was Maze that was commoner, 79 babies to 34.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maze against Mazzy, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maze Mazzy

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 31 years in which either name was published, Mazzy for 23 years and Maze for 8 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Maze Mazzy
Total US births 543938
Most in one year 7948
Babies in 2025 7934
Estimated living today 540930
Median age today 413
Peak year 20252012
Best rank 2,451st boys3,364th girls
Rank in 2025 2,451st4,172nd
First recorded 19221996
Girls / boys 191 / 352933 / 5

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 Mazzys alive today are over 13; half the Mazes are over 4. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Maze and Mazzy.