Azrael
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · #656 for boys in 2025, 421 births
Given to boys 89.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 421 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,188since 1994
Azrael over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 | #656 | 421 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #734 | 358 |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 | #684 | 394 |
| 2022 | #4,472 | 31 | #731 | 355 |
| 2021 | #4,507 | 30 | #837 | 284 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | #928 | 240 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | #953 | 225 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | #1,234 | 150 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | #1,348 | 132 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | #1,501 | 113 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #2,132 | 65 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | #2,317 | 56 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 | #2,044 | 66 |
| 2012 | #8,632 | 13 | #2,772 | 43 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #2,904 | 40 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #3,239 | 34 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #3,721 | 28 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #3,165 | 36 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #4,375 | 22 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #3,782 | 26 |
| 2005 | — | #4,631 | 18 | |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | — | #4,815 | 16 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,502 | 17 | |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | — | #5,920 | 11 | |
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| 1998 | — | #7,560 | 7 | |
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| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
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| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Azrael! It came in at #8,800, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1997, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Azrael is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Colorado#771 · 1 in 5,512
- Pennsylvania#932 · 1 in 8,461
- Texas#978 · 1 in 8,820
- Florida#1,236 · 1 in 12,242
- California#1,561 · 1 in 20,335
Best ever in a state: #224 in New Mexico, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #771 | 5 | 1 in 5,512 |
| Pennsylvania | #932 | 7 | 1 in 8,461 |
| Texas | #978 | 21 | 1 in 8,820 |
| Florida | #1,236 | 8 | 1 in 12,242 |
| California | #1,561 | 11 | 1 in 20,335 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Azrael
- 78 spots since 2024 (#734 → #656)
- 272 spots since 2020 (#928 → #656)
- 1,476 spots since 2015 (#2,132 → #656)
- Biggest jump: 281 spots in 2019 (#1,234 → #953)
- Biggest drop: 50 spots in 2024 (#684 → #734)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2025 at #656 (421 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2019–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,057 boys born in 2025 were named Azrael (0.02%)
- 64.4% of all boys named Azrael (2,052) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 17 | #7,560 (1998) | #8,458 |
| 2000s | 195 | #3,165 (2008) | #4,798 |
| 2010s | 924 | #953 (2019) | #2,044 |
| 2020s | 2,052 | #656 (2025) | #762 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Azrael in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 110,751 of them was named Azrael, which outranked 61.7% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,901Zillah17
- #6,901Zoila17
- #6,901Zully17
- #7,230Azrael16
- #7,230Aalani16
- #7,230Aariana16
- #7,230Aariya16
- #7,602Aalyah15
- #7,602Aamilah15
- #7,602Abeeha15
Tied with 371 names at #7,230; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 16,794 of them was named Azrael, which outranked 89.4% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,491Ryden114
- #1,491Yandel114
- #1,491Yasir114
- #1,501Azrael113
- #1,501Alek113
- #1,501Chaz113
- #1,501Donnie113
- #1,515Azael112
- #1,515Braxtyn112
- #1,515Jahlil112
Tied with 13 names at #1,501; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.