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Azel

#4,061 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Reserved

Azel has been given to 558 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #4,061 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 36 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% boys, 16% girls all-time.

Babies named Azel, 2025

1 in 128,000

Azel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Azel went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19002025

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.

Azel: meaning, origin, and history

Reserved

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Azel means

Azel means “reserved”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 470 boys were recorded with the name Azel between 1900 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,177 in 1900.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,735 in 2020 to #4,061 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,080 in 2015 to #4,061 in 2025.

In the United States, 88 girls were recorded with the name Azel between 1921 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2016; its best national rank was #4,391 in 1938.

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 Azel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 65,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,061
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Azel 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 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Azel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Azels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Azel was born before 2017 — so the typical Azel is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
381
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Choose a decade

2020s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (176).

Is Azel 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
−532
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−326
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,019
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.2%
Peak was 2023 (36)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,177
1900

Spellings of Azel

Azel is not the most common spelling — Alex is, with 19.9% against Azel's 0.03%.

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 Azel is used

Across 1910–2025, Azel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 438,517 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Azel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Azel around the world

Where Azel 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
    2021–2024
    #3,255
    in 2024
  • France
    1997–2025
    #1,059
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #2,855
    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.

Azel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,061
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 326
Best rank ever
#1,177
1900
Peak year
2023
36 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
470
Count in 2025
26

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,391
1938
Peak year
2016
11 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
88
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Azel

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

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Sibling names for Azel

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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