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Azaan

Masculine · “the call to prayer”

1997high 2021
#2145 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare67 boys in 2025

Azaan is the call to prayer in Arabic — adhan, from a root meaning to listen — so the name is the sound itself.

How old is the name Azaan?

Azaan first appears in US birth records in 1997 — 28 years ago. The typical Azaan is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,300 people named Azaan are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Azaan most popular?

Azaan peaked in 2021, reaching #1688 nationally. Today it ranks #2145, 457 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Azaan

The adhan is called five times a day from every mosque, and the tradition holds that its words were shown to a companion in a dream and adopted after the Prophet approved them. The word comes from the verb to give ear. Azaan is standard in South Asian naming and appears in American records in current use.

Meaning

the call to prayer

From the Arabic adhan, 'the announcement' or call to prayer, from adhina, 'to listen' or 'give ear' — the same root as udhun, 'ear'. The muezzin's call carries the name. The Azaan spelling follows South Asian transliteration. The Arabic is documented.

How the name formed

  1. adhina
  2. adhan
  3. Azaan

Related forms: أذان · Azaan · Azan

Pronouncing Azaan

ah-ZAHN

Two syllables, stress on the second. The Arabic dh is a th sound English spellings render as z.

Nicknames for Azaan

Moderate

AzaThe front of the name, used inside families rather than generally
ZaanThe back of the name, sharp and used inside families
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

BOYS NAMED · 1997–202597490976719972025

US babies named Azaan per year from 1997 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#16881990s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1997
Most boys named
202197 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1688reached in 2021
Change vs 2024
−6.9%67 in 2025, from 72
Azaan sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2021, with 97 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Azaan in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • أذان in Arabic — transliteration
  • Azaan in Urdu — same name
  • Azan in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Texas, California.

Azaans among us

1,300

people named Azaan are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 25,494 born in 2025 was named Azaan

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Azaan

#2145
Azaan on the 2025 chart
#770
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Azaan went to 67 boys in 2025, but Asaan, Azan and Asan are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 158, which makes it the 770th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,375 places above the chart.

  • Azaan67
  • Asaan39
  • Azan35
  • Asan17

About 1 boy in 10,811 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 25,494 for Azaan itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Sander test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Azaan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sander climbed just as high around 1937, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sander's path sketches the road Azaan is walking now.

40%chance Azaan will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Azaan, aligned on its peakSander· peak 1937not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-30 yrs+70 yrsSander · #3579Azaan today
Azaan today is about where Sander stood in 1941 — 4 years past a #1688-sized peak. By 1956, Sander had settled around #2701.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Azaan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Azaan is headed

19972030

US babies named Azaan per year, 1997 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Azaan should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady-1% by 2030projected around #2,294 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Azaan beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Azaan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Azaanthis name67#2145Shayan67#2145Wendell67#2145Hosea67#2145Banner67#2145

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That the call to prayer comes from a verb meaning 'to give ear' is a first-rate etymology.
  • The meaning is concrete and instantly recognizable to Muslims.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
What to consider
  • It reads as specifically and strongly Muslim.
  • Azan and Azaan are both in circulation.
  • The Arabic dh is not reproduced by the z spelling.

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Frequently asked

How many Azaans are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Azaan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Azaan?
Azaan is the most-used spelling in US records — 67 of the 158 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Asaan, Azan and Asan.
How popular is the name Azaan in 2025?
Azaan ranks #2145 among US boy names in 2025, with 67 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Azaan?
About 1 in every 25,494 US boys born in 2025 was named Azaan — 67 in all.
Will my child share the name Azaan with classmates?
Azaan will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Azaan

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Shayan#2145 · Wendell#2145 · Hosea#2145 · Banner#2145 · Musab#2145 · Alastair#2145 · Jahsir#2145 · Adair#2145

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