Azell
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Azell has been given to 248 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1934, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 81% boys, 19% girls all-time.
Babies named Azell, 1988
1 in 616,000
Azell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Azell over time
In 1988, Azell went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Azell?
Azell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1988
- 1 in 616,000
- 6 of 3,694,212 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 319,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1988
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 426,773 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Azell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 426,773 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Azell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Azells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Azell was born before 1943 — so the typical Azell is around 82 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 26.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.5%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 70
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 26.0% of all recorded uses (52).
Is Azell 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1934 (12)
- Years since peak
- 91
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.3% average annual change
Spellings of Azell
Azell is not the most common spelling — Axel is, with 34.6% against Azell's 0.10%.
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 Azell is used
Across 1910–2025, Azell was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 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. Azell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Azell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Azell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Azell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.