Lazarus
The boy's name Lazarus has been in the national records since 1882, with 4,043 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,141st. About 3,700 Lazaruses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Lazarus
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,043
- Estimated living today
- 3,700
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 1,141st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,141st
- First recorded
- 1882
How old the living Lazaruses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,043 babies given the name since 1882, about 3,700 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 2,200 of them are children and 80 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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
From Latin Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος, the given name of Biblical figures mentioned in Luke 16 and John 12, from Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר, a given name shared by various people in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped".
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lazaruss
- Lazarus Chakwera (born 1955)Malawi religious figure and politician
- Lazarus Fuchs (1833–1902)German mathematician
- Lazarus You Heung-sik (born 1951)Roman Catholic cardinal from South Korea
- Lazarus Salii (1936–1988)President of Palau
- Lazarus Powell (1812–1867)American politician
- Lazarus Zographos (810–867)9th-century Byzantine Christian saint (810-867) (c.810-867)
- Lazarus von Schwendi (1522–1583)Austrian general
- Lazarus Kaimbi (born 1988)Namibian footballer
People named Lazarus with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lazarus is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lazarus is most concentrated in Texas (4.0×), Florida (2.8×), Colorado (2.7×), California (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Lazarus peaked:
Lazarus elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Lazarus | 61 | 2,734th |
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.
Lazarus among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Lazarus | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Lazarus against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.