Azam
#7,731 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Azam has been given to 209 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #7,731 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Azam, 2025
1 in 332,000
Azam 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Azam?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 171,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,731
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Azam 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Azam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Azams were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Azam was born before 2011 — so the typical Azam is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 28.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 68.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 209
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (60).
Is Azam 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −646
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −189
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 71.4%
- Peak was 2022 (14)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.7% average annual change
Spellings of Azam
Azam is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 36.4% against Azam's 0.01%.
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.
Azam around the world
Where Azam 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 & Wales1996–2025#4,275in 2025
- France2005–2025#3,277in 2025
- Canada2023–2023#3,103in 2023
- South Australia1987–1987#464in 1987
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.
Azam by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Azam
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Azam
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.