Azel
Azel was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,061 among boys’ names; 558 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Azel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Azel?
#4,061 among boys’ names, 2025
Azel rose from #5,080 in 2015 to #4,061 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.4 to 15.2 per million.
43 babies in 2023, the peak
Azel peaked in 2023, when 43 babies were given it (36 boys, #3,300 among boys’ names). The 26 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 26 | #4,061 | |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,263 | 32 | #3,529 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,346 | 36 | #3,300 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 28 | #3,891 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 26 | #4,022 | |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,240 | 28 | #3,735 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,596 | 30 | #3,643 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 18 | #5,121 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,393 | 15 | #5,825 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,505 | 10 | #7,654 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,197 | 18 | #5,080 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,844 | 17 | #5,267 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 9 | #8,177 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,276 | 16 | #5,498 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,105 | 11 | #7,051 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #12,431 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 5 | #12,685 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 7 | #9,959 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 9 | #8,245 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 8 | #8,801 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 5 | #11,638 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #11,049 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,753 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #9,758 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,628 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #3,988 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 5 | #3,761 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,483 | |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,391 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 5 | #3,683 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 7 | #3,025 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 7 | #3,474 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 10 | #2,735 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 7 | #3,438 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,283 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 7 | #3,556 | |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,184 | 6 | #3,901 |
| 1919 | under 5 | 6 | #3,767 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 5 | #4,030 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 8 | #2,844 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 6 | #1,177 |
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 Azel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 558 Americans recorded as Azel, 16% are girls and 84% boys. In 2025 it went to 26 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Azel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Azel, and how old are they?
An estimated 461 Americans named Azel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 451 people named Azel (139 women and girls, 312 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 278 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 14,216 babies since 1880, Azel is the third most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 2,512 babies (1.0%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Azel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1900-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Zephyr | 3,223 |
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 Azel and names like it
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