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Azhar

#3,961 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Shining, brilliant, bright

Azhar has been given to 473 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #3,961 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 27 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 67% boys, 33% girls all-time.

Babies named Azhar, 2025

1 in 123,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Azhar went to 27% girls and 73% boys.

19792025

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.

Azhar: meaning, origin, and history

Shining, brilliant, bright

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Azhar means

Azhar means “shining, brilliant, bright”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 316 boys were recorded with the name Azhar between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,961 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,259 in 2020 to #3,961 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,544 in 2015 to #3,961 in 2025.

In the United States, 157 girls were recorded with the name Azhar between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2022; its best national rank was #8,104 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,371 in 2020 to #9,534 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,252 in 2015 to #9,534 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.

How common is Azhar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,961
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Azhar 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Azhar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Azhars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Azhar was born before 2013 — so the typical Azhar is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
32.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
316
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (102).

Is Azhar 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
+943
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,298
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,583
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.70×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (27)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
52.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,961
2025

Spellings of Azhar

Azhar is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 77.1% against Azhar's 0.22%.

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 Azhar is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Azhar was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,834,433 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 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. Azhar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Azhar is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Azhar was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 592,337 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —

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. Azhar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Azhar around the world

Where Azhar 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
    1996–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1989–2024
    #5,256
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #643
    in 2005

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.

Azhar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,961
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,298
Best rank ever
#3,961
2025
Peak year
2025
27 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
316
Count in 2025
27

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,534
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 837
Best rank ever
#8,104
2022
Peak year
2022
13 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
157
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Azhar

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

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Sibling names for Azhar

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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