Fun Facts About the Name Mazi
- More than 1 thousand babies named Mazi: U.S. records list 1,301 babies given the name Mazi from 1880 through 2025. Even 210 girls received the name Mazi - about 1 girl for every 5 boys.
What Does the Name Mazi Mean?
Mazi is used in two unrelated ways. In Igbo, a language of southeastern Nigeria, mazi is an honorific title for a man, close in force to English sir or mister. It is placed before a man's name as a mark of respect and is also used as a name in its own right; it is a title of standing rather than a descriptive word with a separate literal translation.
Separately, Turkish mâzi means "the past." It comes from Arabic māḍī (ماضي), the active participle of maḍā, "to pass by, to go away," and in Arabic the same form also names the past tense in grammar. In Turkish it is chiefly a literary word for bygone time rather than a customary personal name, so its resemblance to the Igbo title is coincidental.
Mazi Name History & Origins
Among the Igbo, mazi belongs to a group of honorifics - alongside titles such as Nze, Ozo, and Ichie - that a man may carry in his community. It does the work of English "Mr." before a name. In the twentieth century, Igbo writers and public figures adopted Mazi as a fixed prefix, as in Mazi Mbonu Ojike, the nationalist and author. That habit carried the title into personal names in Nigeria and in Igbo communities elsewhere.
Turkish mâzi took a different route. It was borrowed from Arabic, where māḍī serves both as the grammatical term for the past tense and as a general word for what has gone by. Turkish poets and essayists have used mâzi when writing about memory and longing, but it stays a vocabulary word rather than a conventional given name in Turkey.
How Popular is the Name Mazi?
Mazi has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2023. Its best rank was #1,086 in 2023.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #7,377 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2024 | #10,765 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #6,318 | 19 | 0.0012% |
| 2022 | #6,892 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2021 | #6,589 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2020 | #5,596 | 22 | 0.0014% |
| 2019 | #7,222 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2018 | #11,137 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2017 | #10,461 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2016 | #17,946 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #10,665 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2012 | #10,977 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2010 | #14,452 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2008 | #19,464 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2005 | #11,517 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2004 | #17,871 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2002 | #13,142 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2000 | #14,371 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1999 | #13,810 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1995 | #14,913 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,242 | 161 | 0.0094% |
| 2024 | #1,210 | 167 | 0.0097% |
| 2023 | #1,086 | 198 | 0.0116% |
| 2022 | #1,275 | 152 | 0.0087% |
| 2021 | #1,522 | 117 | 0.0067% |
| 2020 | #1,549 | 107 | 0.0062% |
| 2019 | #2,409 | 56 | 0.0031% |
| 2018 | #2,537 | 51 | 0.0028% |
| 2017 | #3,943 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 2016 | #4,571 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2015 | #7,853 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2014 | #11,652 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #13,390 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1998 | #9,234 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1977 | #5,593 | 6 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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