Bazil
#10,858 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bazil has been given to 161 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #10,858 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Bazil, 2025
1 in 553,000
Bazil over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bazil?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,858
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bazil sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bazil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bazils were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bazil was born before 1927 — so the typical Bazil is around 98 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 31.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 33.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 64
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (51).
Is Bazil rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 37.5%
- Peak was 1922 (16)
- Years since peak
- 103
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.5% average annual change
Spellings of Bazil
Bazil is not the most common spelling — Basil is, with 15.5% against Bazil's 0.19%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Bazil around the world
Where Bazil ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2005–2023#4,992in 2023
- France1992–2025#6,573in 2025
- Canada2021–2021#2,989in 2021
- South Australia1949–1965#574in 1965
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bazil by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bazil
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bazil
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.