Mazel
#14,332 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mazel has been given to 397 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #14,332 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1923, with 29 recorded.
Babies named Mazel, 2025
1 in 553,000
Mazel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mazel?
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 girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,332
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mazel 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 Mazel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mazels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mazel was born before 1925 — so the typical Mazel is around 100 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 43.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 1.5%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 6
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (173).
Is Mazel 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
- 20.7%
- Peak was 1923 (29)
- Years since peak
- 102
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.2% average annual change
Spellings of Mazel
Mazel is not the most common spelling — Hazel is, with 43.2% against Mazel's 0.06%.
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.
Where Mazel is used
Across 1910–2025, Mazel was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 244,397 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 2North Carolina1 in —
- 3Tennessee1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mazel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mazel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mazel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mazel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.