Azan
Masculine · “the call to prayer”
Azan is the Arabic word for the call to prayer — the announcement made from the minaret five times a day. It is one of the most-heard sounds in the Muslim world, used as a name.
How old is the name Azan?
Azan first appears in US birth records in 2001 — 24 years ago. The typical Azan is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Azan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Azan most popular?
Azan peaked in 2022, reaching #3003 nationally. Today it ranks #3314, 311 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
From adhan to Azan
The story of Azan
The adhan has been called since the first years of Islam, and the tradition holds that its wording came to a companion of the Prophet in a dream. The word is the same everywhere the religion is practiced, and the sound of it is one of the most immediately recognizable in the world. Its use as a personal name is chiefly South Asian and relatively recent, and Urdu spells it Azan because Urdu pronounces the Arabic letter as a z.
Meaning
the call to prayer
From Arabic adhan, built on a root meaning to listen or to give ear; the word names the formal announcement that prayer is due, distinct from the shorter call given inside the mosque.
How the name formed
- adhan
- Azan
Related forms: Adhan · Azaan · Ezan
Pronouncing Azan
ah-ZAAN
Two syllables with the stress on the long second. English speakers often say AY-zan.
Nicknames for Azan
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2001
- Most boys named
- 202241 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3003reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- +2.9%35 in 2025, from 34
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.
Azan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Adhan in Arabic — transliteration
- Azaan in Urdu — spelling variant
- Ezan in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Texas.
Azans among us
people named Azan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 48,802 born in 2025 was named Azan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Azan
- #3314
- Azan on the 2025 chart
- #770
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Azan went to 35 boys in 2025, but Azaan, Asaan 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 — 2,544 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 48,802 for Azan 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
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Bertin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Azan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Bertin climbed just as high around 1933, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Bertin's path sketches the road Azan is walking now.
Azan 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 Azan is headed
Azan looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 20% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Azan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Azan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning tied to something a great many people hear every day.
- Four letters and two syllables, easy to write and to say.
- Recognized instantly across the whole Muslim world.
- Azaan and Adhan are both used and relatives may prefer a different spelling.
- The stress moves to the front in English, which flattens the name.
- It is very clearly marked as a Muslim name, which is a fact to know rather than a problem.
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Frequently asked
- How many Azans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Azan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Azan?
- Azan is one of 4 recorded spellings. Azaan is the more common one — 67 births in 2025 against 35 for Azan.
- How popular is the name Azan in 2025?
- Azan ranks #3314 among US boy names in 2025, with 35 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Azan?
- About 1 in every 48,802 US boys born in 2025 was named Azan — 35 in all.
- Will my child share the name Azan with classmates?
- Azan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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