Azel — #3519 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Azel

The Social Security Administration has registered 443 babies named Azel between 1900 and 2024, spanning 125 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Azel currently holds the #3519 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 36 babies received it in a single year. Azel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 88 additional births since 1921.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Azel performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 150 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Azel shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 49 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Azel in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Azel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 443 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.