Lazer

#2,781 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Eliezer

Lazer has been given to 841 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #2,781 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Lazer, 2025

1 in 72,100

Lazer over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lazer: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Eliezer

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lazer means

Lazer is a variant of Eliezer.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lazer → Eliezer. The family’s meaning is “my God is help”, recorded in the naming reference for Eliezer.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eliezer.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 841 boys were recorded with the name Lazer between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,461 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,005 in 2020 to #2,781 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,750 in 2015 to #2,781 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Lazer?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 72,100; 46 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 37,100; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #2,781; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 49,955 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lazer 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 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lazer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lazers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lazer was born before 2015 — so the typical Lazer is around 10 today.

Median birth year: 2015; About 10 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 37.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 88.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 841; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (317).

Is Lazer 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: +158; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +224; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +969; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.59×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 83.6%; Peak was 2023 (55)
Years since peak: 2; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,461; 2023

Spellings of Lazer

Lazer is not the most common spelling — Lane is, with 29.2% against Lazer's 0.52%.

Lane29.2%47,562
Lamar20.9%33,967
Lavern6.3%10,236
Blaze5.2%8,508
Baker5.1%8,234
Lazaro4.4%7,118
Nazir2.4%3,961
Lake1.8%2,987

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 Lazer is used

Across 1910–2025, Lazer was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 22,469 across all states with data.

44 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 25,000

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

Lazer around the world

Where Lazer 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
2001–2025
#3,684
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Lazer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #2,781
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 224
Best rank ever: #2,461; 2023
Peak year: 2023; 55 that year
First recorded: 1958
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 841
Count in 2025: 46

Names similar to Lazer

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

Lazar Lazlo Kyzer Kaizer Kizer Lazaro Eluzer Lazarus Khyzer Lazarius Ebenezer Lazare Keizer Khizer Eliazer Abenezer Ryzer Eliezer Ezer Elizer Jazer Frazer Caizer Luzer

Sibling names for Lazer

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Keren Shoshana Nila Kamilah Denisse Karleigh Adelia Estela

For a brother

Evans Caesar Henri Hamilton Gray Arvin Ramsey Tobin

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