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Azael

#645 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Azael has been given to 3,947 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #645 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 432 recorded.

Babies named Azael, 2025

1 in 7,670

Azael over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Azael: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Azael means

Azael is a given name.

The naming story behind Azael

Wikidata records Azael as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q121814955, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,947 boys were recorded with the name Azael between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 432 in 2025; its best national rank was #645 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,130 in 2020 to #645 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,407 in 2015 to #645 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Azael?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,670
432 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,950
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#645
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,320 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Azael sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,320 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Azael. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Azaels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Azael was born before 2019 — so the typical Azael is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
48.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,947
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 48.8% of all recorded uses (1,928).

Is Azael 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
+10
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+485
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+762
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.54×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (432)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#645
2025

Spellings of Azael

Azael is not the most common spelling — Angel is, with 39.9% against Azael's 0.59%.

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 Azael is used

Across 2016–2025, Azael was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 2,041 boys, against 1 in 6,122 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

149 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 2,041
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 2,381
  3. 3Arizona1 in 2,941
  4. 4Colorado1 in 2,941
  5. 5California1 in 4,000
  6. 6Nevada1 in 4,762
  7. 7Illinois1 in 5,556
  8. 8Kansas1 in 11,111

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Geographically, Azael is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 98% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Azael around the world

Where Azael 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 & Wales
    2017–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #1,429
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Azael by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#645
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 485
Best rank ever
#645
2025
Peak year
2025
432 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,947
Count in 2025
432

Names similar to Azael

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Azael

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Azael, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Azael

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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