Azariah
Azariah is a girl's name that peaked in 2023, when it was the 563rd most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 630th. About 14,000 Azariahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Azariah
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Azariah crossed from boys to girls in 1998, and has stayed there for 15 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 73% girls, and in 2025 it was 42%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 33 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,947
- Estimated living today
- 14,000
- Median age today
- 7
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 563rd
- Rank in 2025
- 630th
- First recorded
- 1972
- Girls / boys
- 7,389 / 6,558
How old the living Azariahs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,947 babies given the name since 1972, about 14,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Borrowed from Hebrew עֲזַרְיָה (“Yahweh has helped”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Azariahs
- Azariah dei Rossi (1513–1578)Italian-Jewish physician and scholar (c.1511-1578)
People named Azariah with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Azariah is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Azariah is most concentrated in New Mexico (4.0×), Colorado (2.4×), Florida (2.4×), Arizona (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular girls’ names the year Azariah peaked:
Azariah elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Azariah | 446 | 474th |
| England and Wales girls | Azariah | 385 | 869th |
| France boys | Azariah | 30 | 2,827th |
| France girls | Azariah | 15 | 4,373rd |
| Ireland boys | Azariah | 6 | 779th |
| Switzerland boys | Azariah | 3 | 1,916th |
| Scotland boys | Azariah | 3 | 762nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Azariah: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Azariah | 3 | 0.000% | 1,469th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Related names
Azariah against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.