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Lazarus

#1,143 in 2025Boys' name

God has helped

Lazarus has been given to 4,043 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #1,143 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 185 recorded.

Babies named Lazarus, 2025

1 in 17,900

Lazarus over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lazarus: meaning, origin, and history

God has helped

Hebrew

What Lazarus means

Lazarus means “God has helped”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Late Latin Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of Biblical figures mentioned in Luke 16 and John 12, from Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár), a given name shared by various people in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped". Doublet of Eleazar.

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Lazarus is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Lazarus comes through Late Latin Lazarus, Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος and Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eleazar.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Lazarus is pronounced /ˈlæzəɹəs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,043 boys were recorded with the name Lazarus between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 185 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,022 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,276 in 2020 to #1,143 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,436 in 2015 to #1,143 in 2025.

How common is Lazarus?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,900
185 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,230
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,143
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,422 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lazarus 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,422 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lazarus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lazaruss were born

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

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,727
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (1,173).

Is Lazarus 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
+186
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+133
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+293
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.55×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (185)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,022
1882

Spellings of Lazarus

Lazarus is not the most common spelling — Lazaro is, with 34.7% against Lazarus's 19.7%.

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 Lazarus is used

Across 2016–2025, Lazarus was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 13,673 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Colorado1 in 6,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 6,667
  3. 3California1 in 11,111
  4. 4Florida1 in 11,111
  5. 5Ohio1 in 11,111
  6. 6Indiana1 in 12,500
  7. 7Arizona1 in 14,286
  8. 8New Mexico1 in 14,286

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.

Lazarus around the world

Where Lazarus 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
    1999–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Lazarus

People whose public names include Lazarus, 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.

Lazarus in other languages

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

LazarLazareLazaroLazarosLazzaroLazărLázárLasarus

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

Lazarus by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,143
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 133
Best rank ever
#1,022
1882
Peak year
2025
185 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,043
Count in 2025
185

Names similar to Lazarus

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

LazaroJairusTaurusTyrusLazerLazarSyrusLazariusTavarusSeverusLazloCyprusCyrusDemetrusJavarusSirusIcarusAndrusZephyrusGarrusLazareZyrusTarusKyrus

Names with a curve like Lazarus

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

TzviDovIsmailDovidAryehNikolaUmarMeirSteeleYakovAvrahamEliyahu

Sibling names for Lazarus

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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