Azariah
Azariah is a unisex name: 463 girls and 645 boys were given it in 2025 (#630 among girls’ names and #472 among boys’, #603 among all names counting both); 13,947 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Azariah every year since 2024.
An estimated 13,800 Americans named Azariah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Azariah is among the most evenly shared names of 2025: #11 of 43 unisex names by how close its split is to half and half.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Azariah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Azariah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Azariah is “a female given name from Hebrew of modern usage.” Its etymology gives the sense “Yahweh has helped” (עֲזַרְיָה).
Also “a male given name from Hebrew.”
Borrowed from Hebrew עֲזַרְיָה (“Yahweh has helped”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Azariah?
#630 among girls’ names, 2025
Azariah rose from #856 in 2015 to #630 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.18 to 0.29 per 1,000.
1,108 babies in 2025, the peak
Azariah peaked in 2025, when 1,108 babies were given it (463 girls, #630 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 452 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 463 | #630 | 645 | #472 |
| 2024 | 452 | #651 | 607 | #504 |
| 2023 | 530 | #563 | 515 | #568 |
| 2022 | 479 | #619 | 434 | #639 |
| 2021 | 377 | #757 | 427 | #646 |
| 2020 | 317 | #855 | 379 | #678 |
| 2019 | 341 | #805 | 356 | #702 |
| 2018 | 328 | #827 | 308 | #763 |
| 2017 | 329 | #828 | 293 | #790 |
| 2016 | 364 | #779 | 301 | #788 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 326 | #856 | 360 | #700 |
| 2014 | 278 | #962 | 270 | #836 |
| 2013 | 220 | #1,107 | 260 | #827 |
| 2012 | 262 | #968 | 172 | #1,084 |
| 2011 | 235 | #1,050 | 129 | #1,319 |
| 2010 | 264 | #968 | 121 | #1,383 |
| 2009 | 268 | #988 | 128 | #1,348 |
| 2008 | 248 | #1,054 | 109 | #1,495 |
| 2007 | 233 | #1,110 | 97 | #1,607 |
| 2006 | 199 | #1,209 | 75 | #1,825 |
| 2005 | 187 | #1,218 | 77 | #1,722 |
| 2004 | 128 | #1,546 | 48 | #2,343 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,594 | 51 | #2,151 |
| 2002 | 107 | #1,706 | 46 | #2,250 |
| 2001 | 83 | #2,032 | 48 | #2,151 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,590 | 37 | #2,526 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,643 | 43 | #2,165 |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,370 | 35 | #2,455 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,030 | 21 | #3,354 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,078 | 30 | #2,533 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,567 | 15 | #4,067 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,146 | 21 | #3,215 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,672 | 15 | #4,028 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,900 | 10 | #5,262 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,411 | 17 | #3,468 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,250 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 7 | #5,507 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 8 | #4,882 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 10 | #4,068 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,402 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,536 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,578 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #5,867 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,049 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Azariah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,947 Americans recorded as Azariah, 53% are girls and 47% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Azariah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Azariah, and how old are they?
13,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,947 Americans ever recorded as Azariah. The median Azariah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 6,513 people named Azariah (3,537 women and girls, 2,976 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,430 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 204 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,890 |
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 Azariah born?
The states with the most babies named Azariah are Texas, California and Florida, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 151 | #554 | 1.0× |
| California | 102 | #953 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 72 | #446 | 1.1× |
| New York | 51 | #635 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 48 | #492 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 42 | #609 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 37 | #565 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 34 | #376 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 34 | #513 | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 31 | #255 | 0.8× |
Where Azariah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Azariah is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1972 it was given 2.6 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 girls’ 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 Azariah 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,833 babies since 1880, Azariah is the most given (50% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,108 of their 2,330 babies (48%), again the 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 Azariah
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 Azariah and names like it
- Compare Azariah and AzariaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAzariah peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Azariah since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Azariah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Azariah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Azariah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.