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Lazzaro

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lazzaro has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1928. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2018, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Lazzaro, 2018

1 in 586,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lazzaro: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lazzaro means

Lazzaro is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lazzaro is used in Italian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Lazzaro is pronounced /ˈlad.d͡za.ro/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Lazzaro between 1928 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2018; its best national rank was #4,470 in 1928.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lazzaro?

Lazzaro had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 303,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lazzaro 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lazzaro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lazzaros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lazzaro was born before 2018 — so the typical Lazzaro is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
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Choose a decade

2010s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Lazzaro 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2018 (6)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,470
1928

Spellings of Lazzaro

Lazzaro is not the most common spelling — Lazaro is, with 89.6% against Lazzaro's 0.14%.

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.

Lazzaro around the world

Where Lazzaro 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.

  • France
    1960–2022
    #3,331
    in 2022

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Lazzaro by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,470
1928
Peak year
2018
6 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lazzaro

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

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Sibling names for Lazzaro

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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