Azem

#12,256 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Azem has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2025. In 2025 it ranked #12,256 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Azem, 2025

1 in 663,000

Azem over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Azem: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Azem means

Azem is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Azem is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Azem between 2025 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2025; its best national rank was #12,256 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 Azem?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #12,256; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Azem 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Azem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Azems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Azem was born before 2025 — so the typical Azem is around 0 today.

Median birth year: 2025; About 0 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Azem 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: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (5)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #12,256; 2025

Spellings of Azem

Azem is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 47.6% against Azem's <0.01%.

Adam47.6%580,378
Alex23.5%286,169
Axel5.9%72,459
Abel5.4%66,037
Alec4.5%55,152
Ace2.2%26,319
Aden1.8%21,854
Abe0.80%9,694

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.

Azem around the world

Where Azem 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
2024–2024
#5,120
in 2024
France
2014–2025
#1,870
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Azem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #12,256
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #12,256; 2025
Peak year: 2025; 5 that year
First recorded: 2025
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Azem

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

Azeir Azeal Azer Azen Azeil Azerion Azeriah Azeez Azende Azel Azekial Azeem Azell Hazem Azekiel

Sibling names for Azem

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shyann Sydni Leonor Sydnie Karleigh Rhianna Halie Keren

For a brother

Kale Evans Hamilton Aaden Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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