Aziz

At the 2020 census, 8,888 Americans bore the surname Aziz — 3,881st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 33,600.

By the numbers

People: 8,888
Rank: 3,881st
How common: 1 in 33,600
Per 100,000: 3.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Aziz described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 42.2%
White, not Hispanic 40.9%
Black, not Hispanic 7.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Aziz

Tariq Aziz (1936–2015)Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein
Shaukat Aziz (born 1949)Pakistani banker and politician
Khaled Aziz (born 1981)Saudi Arabian footballer
Serdar Aziz (born 1990)Turkish association football player
Kamran Aziz (1922–2017)Turkish Cypriot musician and pharmacist
Fatima Aziz (1973–2021)Afghan physician and politician
Sartaj Aziz (1929–2024)Pakistani economist and strategist
Iqra Aziz (born 1990)Pakistani actress

People named Aziz with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Aziz has been given to 1,849 American babies as a first name since 1972, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.