Meaning not yet researched.
Azael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 432 in 2025. Its best rank was #645 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Azael in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#645 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Azael: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 432 boys in 2025. Peak: #645 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 432 (2025).
In 2025, 432 US boys were named Azael, making it the 645th most common boys’ name of the year, up 10 places from #655 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 420 boys named Azael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #645, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 432. For comparison, it was #1,407 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Azael in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 5 babies. In all, 3,947 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,928 babies named Azael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,455 US boys were named Azael; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 432. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,954 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Azael ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #273 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aziel (8,796 babies since 1880), Azul (4,885 babies since 1880), Asael (1,644 babies since 1880) and Aseel (1,393 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Asahel and Assael are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Asahel (305), Assael (37).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Azael in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 143 | #273 | #683 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #320 | — |
| Nevada | 9 | #324 | — |
| Arizona | 21 | #359 | #894 |
| Oregon | 10 | #379 | — |
| California | 82 | #401 | #936 |
| Colorado | 13 | #441 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #622 | — |
| Utah | 6 | #626 | — |
| Illinois | 14 | #638 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #702 | — |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #705 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #779 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #798 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #811 | — |
| Florida | 17 | #850 | #1,544 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,039 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,113 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,129 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,291 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,431 | #1,866 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 432 | #645 |
| 2024 | — | — | 420 | #655 |
| 2023 | — | — | 379 | #702 |
| 2022 | — | — | 287 | #848 |
| 2021 | — | — | 237 | #951 |
| 2020 | — | — | 173 | #1,130 |
| 2019 | — | — | 178 | #1,107 |
| 2018 | — | — | 117 | #1,479 |
| 2017 | — | — | 120 | #1,435 |
| 2016 | — | — | 112 | #1,515 |
| 2015 | — | — | 122 | #1,407 |
| 2014 | — | — | 104 | #1,538 |
| 2013 | — | — | 95 | #1,614 |
| 2012 | — | — | 82 | #1,800 |
| 2011 | — | — | 66 | #2,035 |
| 2010 | — | — | 89 | #1,714 |
| 2009 | — | — | 117 | #1,433 |
| 2008 | — | — | 109 | #1,494 |
| 2007 | — | — | 93 | #1,651 |
| 2006 | — | — | 89 | #1,618 |
| 2005 | — | — | 74 | #1,774 |
| 2004 | — | — | 76 | #1,687 |
| 2003 | — | — | 78 | #1,614 |
| 2002 | — | — | 29 | #3,106 |
| 2001 | — | — | 39 | #2,492 |
| 2000 | — | — | 20 | #3,927 |
| 1999 | — | — | 36 | #2,465 |
| 1998 | — | — | 26 | #3,024 |
| 1997 | — | — | 21 | #3,358 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,686 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,534 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,561 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,033 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #4,897 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,473 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,023 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,028 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,497 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,587 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,545 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #5,925 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).