girls:
11 births since 2020
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
363 births since 2008
#4223 (8th percentile)
overall:
374 births since 2008
#7365 (5th percentile)
The name Azazel is the #7,365 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 374 recorded births since 2008. This represents the 4.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,223 (7.9% percentile) for all time with 363 births since 2008. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2020.
Azazel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2008 (2008 for boys and 2020 for girls). Birth data for Azazel is available in 15 out of the 16 years between 2008 and 2023 (15 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Azazel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Azazel reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #891) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 23 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Azazel ranks #876 for boys (3.8% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 93.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Azazel reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #939) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Azazel".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Azazel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Azazel is pronounced as uh-ZAY-zuhl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-ZUH-zuhl, at 17.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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