Mozella vs Mozelle

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Mozella Mozelle

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 108 years in which either name was published, Mozelle for 85 years and Mozella for 23 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.

• 1884–1950 Mozelle ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1965–1976 Mozella ahead
• 1991–2025 Mozelle ahead

14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Mozelles alive today are over 78; half the Mozellas are over 74. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Mozella Mississippi (16.3×), Arkansas (7.3×), North Carolina (7.0×)
• Mozelle North Carolina (8.2×), South Carolina (7.1×), Georgia (6.3×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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