Azrael
Azrael was given to 421 boys in 2025, #656 among boys’ names; 3,549 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,520 Americans named Azrael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Azrael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Azrael?
#656 among boys’ names, 2025
Azrael rose from #2,134 in 2015 to #656 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.03 to 0.25 per 1,000.
443 babies in 2025, the peak
Azrael peaked in 2025, when 443 babies were given it (421 boys, #656 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 358 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,586 | 421 | #656 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,673 | 358 | #734 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,408 | 394 | #684 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,494 | 355 | #731 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,521 | 284 | #837 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,091 | 240 | #928 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,010 | 225 | #954 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,028 | 150 | #1,234 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,684 | 132 | #1,351 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,301 | 113 | #1,502 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,531 | 65 | #2,134 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,031 | 56 | #2,316 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,645 | 66 | #2,044 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,698 | 43 | #2,777 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,303 | 40 | #2,909 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,545 | 34 | #3,246 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,702 | 28 | #3,729 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,056 | 36 | #3,166 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,135 | 22 | #4,387 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,585 | 26 | #3,794 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 18 | #4,643 | |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,006 | 12 | #6,167 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 16 | #4,832 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 17 | #4,517 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,139 | 9 | #6,977 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 11 | #5,948 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 7 | #7,626 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #9,125 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #8,901 |
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 Azrael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,549 Americans recorded as Azrael, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 22 girls and 421 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Azrael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Azrael, and how old are they?
3,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,549 Americans ever recorded as Azrael. The median Azrael alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 1,086 people named Azrael (203 women and girls, 883 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,398 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 391 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,120 |
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 Azrael born?
The states with the most babies named Azrael are Texas, California and Florida, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 106 | #352 | 1.5× |
| California | 67 | #472 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 28 | #603 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 26 | #296 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 11 | #755 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 11 | #799 | 0.4× |
| New York | 10 | #1,134 | 0.4× |
| Nevada | 10 | #300 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 9 | #858 | 0.4× |
| Oregon | 9 | #400 | 0.5× |
Where Azrael is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Azrael is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1994 it was given 1.6 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 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 Azrael 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,887 babies since 1880, Azrael is the second most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 443 of their 1,116 babies (40%), 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 Azrael
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 Azrael and names like it
- Compare Azrael and AzrielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAzrael peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Azrael since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Azrael.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Azrael alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.