Azael
Azael was given to 432 boys in 2025, #645 among boys’ names; 3,947 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,910 Americans named Azael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Azael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Azael?
#645 among boys’ names, 2025
Azael rose from #1,407 in 2015 to #645 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.06 to 0.25 per 1,000.
432 babies in 2025, the peak
Azael peaked in 2025, when 432 boys were given it, #645 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 420 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 432 | #645 | 0.25 |
| 2024 | 420 | #655 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 379 | #702 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 287 | #848 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 237 | #951 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 173 | #1,130 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 178 | #1,107 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,479 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 120 | #1,435 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,515 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 122 | #1,407 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,538 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 95 | #1,613 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 82 | #1,799 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,034 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 89 | #1,714 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 117 | #1,433 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,494 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 93 | #1,651 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 89 | #1,618 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 74 | #1,771 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 76 | #1,684 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 78 | #1,611 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,102 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 39 | #2,488 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 20 | #3,921 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 36 | #2,462 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,021 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,353 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,680 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,528 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,555 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,027 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,890 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,467 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,016 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,021 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,490 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,543 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,923 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Azael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Azael has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Azael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Azael, and how old are they?
3,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,947 Americans ever recorded as Azael. The median Azael alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,196 people named Azael (31 women and girls, 2,165 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,042 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 117 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,760 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Azael born?
The states with the most babies named Azael are Texas, California and Arizona, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 143 | #273 | 3.2× |
| California | 82 | #401 | 1.6× |
| Arizona | 21 | #359 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 17 | #850 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 14 | #638 | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 13 | #441 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 11 | #798 | 0.3× |
| Oregon | 10 | #378 | 0.2× |
| Nevada | 9 | #324 | 0.7× |
| New York | 7 | #1,431 | 0.1× |
Where Azael is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Azael is most over-represented in Texas: since 1977 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Azael with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 14,216 babies since 1880, Azael is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 432 of their 2,512 babies (17%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Azael
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Azael and names like it
- Compare Azael and AzielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAzael peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Azael since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Azael.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Azael alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.