Azriel
Azriel was given to 566 boys in 2025, #529 among boys’ names; 4,686 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,640 Americans named Azriel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Azriel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Azriel?
#529 among boys’ names, 2025
Azriel rose from #1,546 in 2015 to #529 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.33 per 1,000.
586 babies in 2025, the peak
Azriel peaked in 2025, when 586 babies were given it (566 boys, #529 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 472 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,946 | 566 | #529 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,468 | 472 | #605 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,764 | 416 | #657 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,484 | 353 | #735 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,854 | 245 | #924 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,692 | 175 | #1,124 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,397 | 159 | #1,202 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,560 | 111 | #1,531 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,350 | 125 | #1,403 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,302 | 125 | #1,400 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,273 | 105 | #1,546 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,032 | 84 | #1,782 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,505 | 84 | #1,734 |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,981 | 82 | #1,800 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,012 | 92 | #1,645 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,407 | 93 | #1,665 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,732 | 97 | #1,626 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,843 | 89 | #1,710 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,253 | 54 | #2,377 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,104 | 60 | #2,150 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,188 | 51 | #2,295 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,228 | 43 | #2,528 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,343 | 41 | #2,507 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,735 | 43 | #2,374 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,998 | 37 | #2,562 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,637 | 33 | #2,738 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,778 | 24 | #3,282 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,272 | 16 | #4,215 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,418 | 13 | #4,681 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,768 | 14 | #4,409 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,664 | 7 | #7,044 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,672 | 10 | #5,482 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,674 | 9 | #5,796 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,502 | 11 | #4,891 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #5,986 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,181 | 5 | #8,215 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,040 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 7 | #5,377 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 9 | #4,357 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,056 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #5,544 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,580 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 6 | #5,412 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 7 | #4,000 |
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 Azriel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,686 Americans recorded as Azriel, 15% are girls and 85% boys. In 2025 it went to 20 girls and 566 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Azriel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Azriel, and how old are they?
4,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,686 Americans ever recorded as Azriel. The median Azriel alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,919 people named Azriel (405 women and girls, 1,514 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,329 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 17 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 129 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,320 |
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 Azriel born?
The states with the most babies named Azriel are Texas, California and Arizona, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 116 | #341 | 1.2× |
| California | 66 | #484 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 36 | #225 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 33 | #533 | 0.8× |
| New York | 30 | #531 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 20 | #522 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 18 | #540 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 16 | #595 | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 15 | #404 | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 12 | #548 | 0.3× |
Where Azriel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Azriel is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1972 it was given 1.7 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 Azriel 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, Azriel is the most given (53% of them). In 2025 it was given to 586 of their 1,116 babies (53%), 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 Azriel
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 Azriel and names like it
- Compare Azriel and AzraelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAzriel peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Azriel since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Azriel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Azriel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.