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Azar

#3,135 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Fire

Azar has been given to 222 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #3,135 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 38 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Azar, 2025

1 in 87,200

Azar over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Azar over time

In 2025, Azar went to 12% girls and 88% boys.

19732025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Azar: meaning, origin, and history

Fire

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Azar means

Azar means “fire”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 212 boys were recorded with the name Azar between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,135 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,476 in 2020 to #3,135 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,271 in 2015 to #3,135 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Azar between 2016 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2016; its best national rank was #15,271 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 Azar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 44,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,135
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Azar 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Azar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Azars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Azar was born before 2021 — so the typical Azar is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
65.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
212
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2020s — 65.1% of all recorded uses (138).

Is Azar 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
+1,196
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,341
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+9,136
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
7.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (38)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,135
2025

Spellings of Azar

Azar is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 42.9% against Azar's 0.02%.

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 Azar is used

Across 1910–2025, Azar was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,310,309 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in —

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. Azar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Azar around the world

Where Azar 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
    2016–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    2010–2025
    #3,484
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1984–2000
    #556
    in 2000

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.

Azar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,135
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,341
Best rank ever
#3,135
2025
Peak year
2025
38 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
212
Count in 2025
38

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,271
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#15,271
2025
Peak year
2016
5 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Azar

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

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Sibling names for Azar

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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