girls:
637 births since 1990
#5079 (11th percentile)
boys:
3k births since 1972
#2306 (50th percentile)
overall:
3.6k births since 1972
#4562 (41st percentile)
The name Azriel is the #4,562 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,602 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 41.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,306 (49.7% percentile) for all time with 2,965 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,079 (11.1% percentile) for all time with 637 births since 1990.
Azriel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for boys and 1990 for girls). Birth data for Azriel is available in 42 out of the 52 years between 1972 and 2023 (42 years for boys and 33 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 Azriel has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 93.7% of babies named Azriel were boys.
For boys, Azriel reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 40.5% percentile (ranked #542) with 227 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 227 births per million (ranked 40.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Azriel is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #542 (40.5% percentile) with 227 births per million.
For girls, Azriel reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #904) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 25 births per million (ranked 4.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Azriel ranks #924 for girls (2.4% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 63.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Azriel".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Azriel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.3% confident that Azriel is pronounced as AZ-ree-uhl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AZ-ree-EHL, at 20.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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