Aziz
Aziz was given to 75 boys in 2025, #2,008 among boys’ names; 1,849 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,810 Americans named Aziz and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aziz by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aziz mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aziz is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “dear” (عَزِيز).
From Arabic عَزِيز (ʕazīz, “dear”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aziz?
#2,008 among boys’ names, 2025
Aziz rose from #2,357 in 2015 to #2,008 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 28.7 to 43.9 per million.
95 babies in 2024, the peak
Aziz peaked in 2024, when 95 boys were given it, #1,736 among boys’ names. The 75 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,008 | 43.9 |
| 2024 | 95 | #1,736 | 55.1 |
| 2023 | 82 | #1,912 | 47.9 |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,002 | 43.5 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,061 | 40.6 |
| 2020 | 45 | #2,730 | 26.1 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,427 | 30.7 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,236 | 33.6 |
| 2017 | 50 | #2,533 | 27.0 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,172 | 33.2 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #2,357 | 28.7 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,709 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,139 | 32.8 |
| 2012 | 54 | #2,358 | 28.5 |
| 2011 | 43 | #2,755 | 22.6 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,245 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,227 | 17.6 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,152 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,920 | 19.3 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,229 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,750 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 35 | #2,892 | 17.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,288 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,103 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 37 | #2,561 | 19.0 |
| 2000 | 41 | #2,330 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 48 | #1,995 | 25.0 |
| 1998 | 38 | #2,311 | 19.9 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,397 | 18.0 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,594 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 33 | #2,349 | 17.3 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,029 | 11.9 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,209 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,670 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 21 | #2,992 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #3,985 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,095 | 9.5 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,513 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,471 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,277 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,509 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,298 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,415 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,346 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,909 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,439 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,314 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,383 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,179 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #4,982 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,277 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,480 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aziz a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aziz has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aziz: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aziz, and how old are they?
1,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,849 Americans ever recorded as Aziz. The median Aziz alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 4,313 people named Aziz (125 women and girls, 4,188 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,390 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 69 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 573 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 828 |
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 Aziz born?
The states with the most babies named Aziz are New York, California and Illinois, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 11 | #1,062 | 1.7× |
| California | 8 | #1,850 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,039 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,114 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,317 | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,041 | 2.4× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,105 | 0.4× |
Where Aziz is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aziz is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1972 it was given 2.4 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 Aziz 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,340 babies since 1880, Aziz is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 75 of their 131 babies (57%), 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 Aziz
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 Aziz and names like it
- Compare Aziz and AyazBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAziz peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aziz since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Aziz: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Aziz.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aziz alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.