Meaning not yet researched.
Azariah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 645 in 2025. Its best rank was #472 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 58% of babies named Azariah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#472 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Azariah: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 645 boys in 2025. Peak: #472 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 645 (2025).
In 2025, 645 US boys were named Azariah, making it the 472nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 32 places from #504 in 2024. That is 38 more than the 607 boys named Azariah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #472, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 645. For comparison, it was #700 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 463 US girls were named Azariah, making it the 630th most common girls’ name of the year, up 21 places from #651 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 452 girls named Azariah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #563, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 530. For comparison, it was #856 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Azariah in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 13,947 US babies have been given the name, 53% of them girls and 47% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,625 babies named Azariah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,265 US boys were named Azariah; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 645. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,648 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Azariah ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #128 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Azaria (7,827 babies since 1880), Azari (2,872 babies since 1880) and Azariyah (1,243 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Azaryah, Azariya and Azarie are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Aze and Riah.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Azaryah (454), Azariya (355), Azarie (263), Azarya (199), Azoria (156), Azyria (141), Azarria (129), Azuriah (112), Azyriah (101), Azzaria (96), Azeria (89), Azeriah (83), and more.
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 15 | #128 | #189 |
| Montana | 5 | #232 | — |
| South Dakota | 5 | #262 | — |
| West Virginia | 6 | #302 | — |
| Missouri | 20 | #327 | #745 |
| Oregon | 12 | #330 | #499 |
| Indiana | 21 | #351 | — |
| Washington | 21 | #351 | #497 |
| Minnesota | 16 | #358 | — |
| Nevada | 8 | #365 | — |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #382 | #635 |
| Texas | 94 | #387 | #608 |
| Iowa | 8 | #401 | — |
| Colorado | 15 | #403 | #288 |
| Kansas | 8 | #430 | — |
| North Carolina | 25 | #431 | #662 |
| California | 73 | #439 | #658 |
| Georgia | 25 | #440 | #842 |
| Maryland | 11 | #441 | #531 |
| Arizona | 16 | #445 | #406 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #446 | — |
| Virginia | 16 | #474 | #741 |
| Illinois | 20 | #500 | #839 |
| Ohio | 19 | #541 | #788 |
| Florida | 30 | #574 | #747 |
| Alabama | 8 | #575 | — |
| Louisiana | 7 | #593 | — |
| New York | 25 | #602 | #861 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #613 | #444 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #629 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #635 | — |
| Tennessee | 11 | #639 | #676 |
| Michigan | 12 | #642 | #887 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #705 | #857 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #778 | #863 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #794 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 463 | #630 | 645 | #472 |
| 2024 | 452 | #651 | 607 | #504 |
| 2023 | 530 | #563 | 515 | #568 |
| 2022 | 479 | #619 | 434 | #639 |
| 2021 | 377 | #757 | 427 | #646 |
| 2020 | 317 | #855 | 379 | #678 |
| 2019 | 341 | #805 | 356 | #702 |
| 2018 | 328 | #827 | 308 | #763 |
| 2017 | 329 | #828 | 293 | #790 |
| 2016 | 364 | #779 | 301 | #788 |
| 2015 | 326 | #856 | 360 | #700 |
| 2014 | 278 | #962 | 270 | #836 |
| 2013 | 220 | #1,107 | 260 | #827 |
| 2012 | 262 | #968 | 172 | #1,084 |
| 2011 | 235 | #1,050 | 129 | #1,319 |
| 2010 | 264 | #968 | 121 | #1,383 |
| 2009 | 268 | #988 | 128 | #1,348 |
| 2008 | 248 | #1,054 | 109 | #1,495 |
| 2007 | 233 | #1,110 | 97 | #1,607 |
| 2006 | 199 | #1,209 | 75 | #1,825 |
| 2005 | 187 | #1,218 | 77 | #1,725 |
| 2004 | 128 | #1,547 | 48 | #2,347 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,595 | 51 | #2,155 |
| 2002 | 107 | #1,708 | 46 | #2,254 |
| 2001 | 83 | #2,036 | 48 | #2,155 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,594 | 37 | #2,531 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,646 | 43 | #2,168 |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,373 | 35 | #2,458 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,034 | 21 | #3,359 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,083 | 30 | #2,538 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,572 | 15 | #4,073 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,152 | 21 | #3,221 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,678 | 15 | #4,034 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,907 | 10 | #5,269 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,418 | 17 | #3,474 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,257 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,514 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #4,887 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,073 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,406 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,539 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,580 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,870 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,051 |
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).