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Azariah

#630 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Yahweh has helped

Azariah has been given to 13,947 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #630 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 530 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 53% girls, 47% boys all-time.

Babies named Azariah, 2025

1 in 7,160

Azariah over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Azariah went to 42% girls and 58% boys.

19722025

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.

Azariah: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh has helped

Hebrew

What Azariah means

Azariah means “Yahweh has helped”, associated with עֲזַרְיָה.

Origin, language, and formation

Azariah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Azariah comes through Hebrew עֲזַרְיָה.

Azariah is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,389 girls were recorded with the name Azariah between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 530 in 2023; its best national rank was #563 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #855 in 2020 to #630 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #856 in 2015 to #630 in 2025.

In the United States, 6,558 boys were recorded with the name Azariah between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 645 in 2025; its best national rank was #472 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #678 in 2020 to #472 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #700 in 2015 to #472 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Azariah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,160
463 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,470
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#630
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,964 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Azariah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,964 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Azariah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Azariahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Azariah was born before 2016 — so the typical Azariah is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,389
People you could plausibly meet
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2010s — 39.9% of all recorded uses (2,947).

Is Azariah 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
+21
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+225
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+226
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.42×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.4%
Peak was 2023 (530)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#563
2023

Spellings of Azariah

Azariah is not the most common spelling — Mariah is, with 49.6% against Azariah's 3.2%.

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 Azariah is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Azariah was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 806 girls, against 1 in 3,613 across all states with data. It was least common in Kansas (1 in 16,667).

6124 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 806
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 1,563
  3. 3Georgia1 in 2,273
  4. 4Nevada1 in 2,381
  5. 5Hawaii1 in 2,564
  6. 6Maryland1 in 2,632
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 2,632
  8. 8Alabama1 in 2,703

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.

Geographically, Azariah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 67% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Where Azariah is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Azariah was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 654 boys, against 1 in 3,892 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 33,333).

3153 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 654
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 758
  3. 3Colorado1 in 1,852
  4. 4Washington1 in 2,041
  5. 5South Dakota1 in 2,222
  6. 6Arizona1 in 2,326
  7. 7Oregon1 in 2,326
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 2,941

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.

Azariah around the world

Where Azariah 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
    1999–2025
    #1,166
    in 2025
  • France
    2023–2025
    #4,373
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #1,286
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Notable people named Azariah

People whose public names include Azariah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Azariah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Azariah. Linked forms have their own page here.

Azaria

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Azariah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#630
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 225
Best rank ever
#563
2023
Peak year
2023
530 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,389
Count in 2025
463

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#472
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 206
Best rank ever
#472
2025
Peak year
2025
645 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,558
Count in 2025
645

Names similar to Azariah

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

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Names with a curve like Azariah

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

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Sibling names for Azariah

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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