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Lazar

#4,328 in 2025Boys' name

El has helped., through Λάζαρος

Lazar has been given to 811 babies in the U.S. since 1931. In 2025 it ranked #4,328 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Lazar, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lazar: meaning, origin, and history

El has helped., through Λάζαρος

Serbo-Croatian and Hebrew

What Lazar means

Lazar belongs to the name family reached through Lazar → Λάζαρος. Its meaning is “El has helped.”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Lazar, ultimately from Ancient Greek Λάζαρος (Lázaros), from Hebrew אלעזר (ʼElʻāzār).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lazar (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Lazar is used in English and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Serbo-Croatian and Hebrew.

Lazar comes through Serbo-Croatian Lazar, Ancient Greek Λάζαρος and Hebrew אלעזר.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lazarus and Λάζαρος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Lazar is pronounced /lâzaːr/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 811 boys were recorded with the name Lazar between 1931 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2012; its best national rank was #2,985 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,874 in 2020 to #4,328 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,359 in 2015 to #4,328 in 2025.

How common is Lazar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,328
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lazar 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lazar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lazars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lazar was born before 2010 — so the typical Lazar is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
806
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2010s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (258).

Is Lazar 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
−579
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−454
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+31
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.04×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.5%
Peak was 2012 (39)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,985
2012

Spellings of Lazar

Lazar is not the most common spelling — Lamar is, with 32.1% against Lazar's 0.77%.

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 Lazar is used

Across 1910–2025, Lazar was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 200,654 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 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. Lazar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lazar around the world

Where Lazar 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
    2003–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    1969–2025
    #1,834
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Lazar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,328
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 454
Best rank ever
#2,985
2012
Peak year
2012
39 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
811
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Lazar

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

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Sibling names for Lazar

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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