Meaning not yet researched.
Azrael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 421 in 2025. Its best rank was #656 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 95% of babies named Azrael in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#656 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Azrael: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 421 boys in 2025. Peak: #656 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 421 (2025).
In 2025, 421 US boys were named Azrael, making it the 656th most common boys’ name of the year, up 78 places from #734 in 2024. That is 63 more than the 358 boys named Azrael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #656, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 421. For comparison, it was #2,134 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Azrael, making it the 5,587th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,089 places from #6,676 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 17 girls named Azrael in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,092, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 34. For comparison, it was #8,535 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Azrael in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 5 babies. In all, 3,549 US babies have been given the name, 10% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,209 babies named Azrael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,672 US boys were named Azrael; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 421. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,057 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Azrael ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #296 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Azriel (4,686 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Azraelle 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: Azraelle (5).
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 Azrael 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 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 26 | #296 | #895 |
| Nevada | 10 | #300 | — |
| Texas | 106 | #352 | #1,780 |
| Oregon | 9 | #401 | — |
| Kansas | 8 | #431 | — |
| California | 67 | #472 | #2,598 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #530 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #558 | — |
| Florida | 28 | #603 | #1,546 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #706 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #717 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #755 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #766 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #799 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #821 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #856 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #858 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #884 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #913 | #967 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #923 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #936 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,042 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,134 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,157 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,587 | 421 | #656 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,676 | 358 | #734 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,412 | 394 | #684 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,496 | 355 | #731 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,525 | 284 | #837 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,092 | 240 | #928 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,014 | 225 | #954 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,032 | 150 | #1,234 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,688 | 132 | #1,351 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,304 | 113 | #1,502 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,535 | 65 | #2,134 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,033 | 56 | #2,318 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,650 | 66 | #2,045 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,702 | 43 | #2,778 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,309 | 40 | #2,910 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,550 | 34 | #3,247 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,708 | 28 | #3,731 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,061 | 36 | #3,168 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,141 | 22 | #4,389 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,590 | 26 | #3,796 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,648 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,011 | 12 | #6,173 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,837 |
| 2002 | — | — | 17 | #4,523 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,146 | 9 | #6,984 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #5,956 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #7,634 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,132 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #8,907 |
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).