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Lazaro

#1,504 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Lazaro has been given to 7,118 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #1,504 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 143 recorded.

Babies named Lazaro, 2025

1 in 28,300

Lazaro over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lazaro: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lazaro means

Lazaro is a given name.

The naming story behind Lazaro

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Lazaro in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 33.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Span. It. Heb. God will help”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Lazaro, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,118 boys were recorded with the name Lazaro between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 143 in 2004; its best national rank was #803 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,532 in 2020 to #1,504 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,763 in 2015 to #1,504 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 Lazaro?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 28,300
117 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 14,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,504
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,641 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lazaro 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,641 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lazaro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lazaros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lazaro was born before 1994 — so the typical Lazaro is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,469
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2000s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (1,342).

Is Lazaro 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
+124
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+28
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+259
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.34×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.8%
Peak was 2004 (143)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#803
1985

Spellings of Lazaro

Lazaro is not the most common spelling — Lamar is, with 59.0% against Lazaro's 12.4%.

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 Lazaro is used

Across 2016–2025, Lazaro was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 4,762 boys, against 1 in 12,897 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 4,762
  2. 2Texas1 in 7,143
  3. 3California1 in 12,500
  4. 4Arizona1 in 33,333
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 100,000

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.

Lazaro around the world

Where Lazaro 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
    2018–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1925–2025
    #4,490
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2009
    #2,692
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1955–1955
    #392
    in 1955

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.

Notable people named Lazaro

People whose public names include Lazaro, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lazaro in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lazaro. Linked forms have their own page here.

LazareLazarosLazarusLazzaro

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lazaro by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,504
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 28
Best rank ever
#803
1985
Peak year
2004
143 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,118
Count in 2025
117

Names similar to Lazaro

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

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Names with a curve like Lazaro

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lazaro, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Lazaro

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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