# Azariah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/azariah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “yahweh has helped” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Azaria |
| US babies named this | 13,947 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,558 / 7,389 (53% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 831, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew עֲזַרְיָה (“Yahweh has helped”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 235 | 1,050 |
| 2012 | 262 | 968 |
| 2013 | 220 | 1,107 |
| 2014 | 278 | 962 |
| 2015 | 326 | 856 |
| 2016 | 364 | 779 |
| 2017 | 329 | 828 |
| 2018 | 328 | 827 |
| 2019 | 341 | 805 |
| 2020 | 317 | 855 |
| 2021 | 377 | 757 |
| 2022 | 479 | 619 |
| 2023 | 530 | 563 |
| 2024 | 452 | 651 |
| 2025 | 463 | 630 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 129 | 1,319 |
| 2012 | 172 | 1,084 |
| 2013 | 260 | 827 |
| 2014 | 270 | 836 |
| 2015 | 360 | 700 |
| 2016 | 301 | 788 |
| 2017 | 293 | 790 |
| 2018 | 308 | 763 |
| 2019 | 356 | 702 |
| 2020 | 379 | 678 |
| 2021 | 427 | 646 |
| 2022 | 434 | 639 |
| 2023 | 515 | 568 |
| 2024 | 607 | 504 |
| 2025 | 645 | 472 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 3,185 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2013 | 15 | 1,864 |
| 2014 | 11 | 2,314 |
| 2015 | 22 | 1,452 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,749 |
| 2017 | 23 | 1,411 |
| 2018 | 20 | 1,526 |
| 2019 | 22 | 1,389 |
| 2020 | 26 | 1,238 |
| 2021 | 30 | 1,128 |
| 2022 | 32 | 1,058 |
| 2023 | 39 | 906 |
| 2024 | 42 | 869 |
| 2025 | 28 | 1,166 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 2,390 |
| 2012 | 7 | 2,721 |
| 2013 | 13 | 1,706 |
| 2014 | 17 | 1,421 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,673 |
| 2016 | 23 | 1,187 |
| 2017 | 18 | 1,398 |
| 2018 | 20 | 1,284 |
| 2019 | 21 | 1,217 |
| 2020 | 21 | 1,230 |
| 2021 | 23 | 1,184 |
| 2022 | 42 | 771 |
| 2023 | 41 | 791 |
| 2024 | 65 | 586 |
| 2025 | 82 | 474 |

## In other languages

- Greek: Αζαρίας
- Portuguese: Azarias

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.