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Mazi

Mazi reached its high-water mark in 2023 at number 1,084, and has been recorded 1,301 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,241st. About 1,300 Mazis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 3.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Mazi boys named Mazi

Girls and boys called Mazi

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 210 girls and 1,091 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 15 to 161.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 10 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
1,301
Estimated living today
1,300
Median age today
3
Peak year
2023
Best rank
1,084th
Rank in 2025
1,241st
First recorded
1977
Girls / boys
210 / 1,091

How old the living Mazis are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,301 babies given the name since 1977, about 1,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2022 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Mazi is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Mazi is most concentrated in Louisiana (6.1×), Georgia (5.5×), Florida (3.2×), Mississippi (2.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2023

The most popular boys’ names the year Mazi peaked:

All the names of 2023

Related names

Mazi against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.