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Mazi vs Mazie

American parents have registered 9,797 Mazies since 1880, against 1,301 Mazis. Mazie is still ahead, with 265 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mazi Mazie

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

Mazie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1977, when Mazi had 6 and Mazie had 7.

Side by side

  Mazi Mazie
Total US births 1,3019,797
Most in one year 217270
Babies in 2025 176265
Estimated living today 1,3004,500
Median age today 312
Peak year 20232023
Best rank 1,084th boys961st girls
Rank in 2025 1,241st965th
First recorded 19771880
Girls / boys 210 / 1,0919,797 / 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 Mazies alive today are over 12; half the Mazis 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: Mazi and Mazie.