Meaning not yet researched.
Lazarus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 185 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,023 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,023 in 1882; #1,143 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lazarus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,143 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #1,023.
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Lazarus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 185 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,023 in 1882 · most boys in one year: 185 (2025).
In 2025, 185 US boys were named Lazarus, making it the 1,143rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 186 places from #1,329 in 2024. That is 40 more than the 145 boys named Lazarus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,023, reached in 1882. The most boys given the name in a single year was 185, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,436 in 2015 and #2,688 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lazarus in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 4,043 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,173 babies named Lazarus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,504 US boys were named Lazarus; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 185. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,233 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lazarus ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #749 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lazaro (7,118 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lazarius and Lazaros 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: Lazarius (173), Lazaros (10).
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 Lazarus 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 8 | #749 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #753 | — |
| Texas | 33 | #819 | #992 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #821 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #906 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #938 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,098 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,126 | — |
| California | 18 | #1,135 | #1,421 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,219 | #1,459 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,352 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,565 | #1,158 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 185 | #1,143 |
| 2024 | — | — | 145 | #1,329 |
| 2023 | — | — | 134 | #1,387 |
| 2022 | — | — | 146 | #1,302 |
| 2021 | — | — | 172 | #1,159 |
| 2020 | — | — | 144 | #1,276 |
| 2019 | — | — | 139 | #1,317 |
| 2018 | — | — | 153 | #1,220 |
| 2017 | — | — | 152 | #1,210 |
| 2016 | — | — | 134 | #1,334 |
| 2015 | — | — | 119 | #1,436 |
| 2014 | — | — | 124 | #1,382 |
| 2013 | — | — | 112 | #1,473 |
| 2012 | — | — | 87 | #1,735 |
| 2011 | — | — | 74 | #1,897 |
| 2010 | — | — | 79 | #1,849 |
| 2009 | — | — | 75 | #1,919 |
| 2008 | — | — | 78 | #1,867 |
| 2007 | — | — | 77 | #1,871 |
| 2006 | — | — | 80 | #1,752 |
| 2005 | — | — | 55 | #2,200 |
| 2004 | — | — | 55 | #2,150 |
| 2003 | — | — | 74 | #1,681 |
| 2002 | — | — | 74 | #1,628 |
| 2001 | — | — | 67 | #1,728 |
| 2000 | — | — | 75 | #1,578 |
| 1999 | — | — | 54 | #1,841 |
| 1998 | — | — | 49 | #1,977 |
| 1997 | — | — | 38 | #2,246 |
| 1996 | — | — | 41 | #2,096 |
| 1995 | — | — | 33 | #2,382 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,661 |
| 1993 | — | — | 35 | #2,236 |
| 1992 | — | — | 26 | #2,716 |
| 1991 | — | — | 32 | #2,271 |
| 1990 | — | — | 26 | #2,588 |
| 1989 | — | — | 37 | #1,977 |
| 1988 | — | — | 26 | #2,337 |
| 1987 | — | — | 19 | #2,788 |
| 1986 | — | — | 21 | #2,575 |
| 1985 | — | — | 24 | #2,265 |
| 1984 | — | — | 27 | #2,012 |
| 1983 | — | — | 26 | #2,056 |
| 1982 | — | — | 24 | #2,190 |
| 1981 | — | — | 26 | #2,069 |
| 1980 | — | — | 21 | #2,412 |
| 1979 | — | — | 23 | #2,201 |
| 1978 | — | — | 22 | #2,168 |
| 1977 | — | — | 20 | #2,323 |
| 1976 | — | — | 21 | #2,213 |
| 1975 | — | — | 16 | #2,596 |
| 1974 | — | — | 15 | #2,623 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,141 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,076 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,078 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,076 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,755 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,476 |
| 1967 | — | — | 14 | #2,213 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,423 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,373 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,209 |
| 1962 | — | — | 10 | #2,774 |
| 1961 | — | — | 12 | #2,485 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,878 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,452 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,927 |
| 1956 | — | — | 14 | #2,217 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,104 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,077 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,116 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #2,994 |
| 1951 | — | — | 8 | #2,964 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,688 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,913 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #2,998 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,797 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,301 |
| 1943 | — | — | 10 | #2,481 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,790 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,312 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,570 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,812 |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,851 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,241 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,570 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,825 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,129 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,244 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,318 |
| 1926 | — | — | 10 | #2,821 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,588 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,390 |
| 1923 | — | — | 9 | #3,075 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,104 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,902 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,874 |
| 1919 | — | — | 16 | #2,025 |
| 1918 | — | — | 14 | #2,225 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,787 |
| 1916 | — | — | 16 | #1,901 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,242 |
| 1914 | — | — | 13 | #1,826 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #2,024 |
| 1912 | — | — | 10 | #1,689 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,514 |
| 1907 | — | — | 5 | #1,458 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,346 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,118 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,177 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,169 |
| 1888 | — | — | 5 | #1,115 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,046 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #1,023 |
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).