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Azer

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Azer has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2022, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Azer, 2023

1 in 663,000

Azer over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Azer: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Azer means

Azer is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Azer is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 21 boys were recorded with the name Azer between 2007 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2022; its best national rank was #11,022 in 2022.

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 Azer?

Azer had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Azer 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Azer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Azers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Azer was born before 2022 — so the typical Azer is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
52.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
21
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 52.4% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Azer 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2022 (6)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,022
2022

Spellings of Azer

Azer is not the most common spelling — Alex is, with 30.1% against Azer's <0.01%.

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.

Azer around the world

Where Azer 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
    2020–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1993–2025
    #2,986
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021

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.

Azer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,022
2022
Peak year
2022
6 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Azer

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

AzealAzeirAzemAzenAzeilEzerRyzerAzeriahAzeezCaizerAzendeAzelJezerLuzerAzekialTyzerOzerKhizerJazerAzeemMonzerAzellKeizerKiazer

Sibling names for Azer

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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