Aziah
Feminine
Aziah is given to both — 900 girls and 1,074 boys since 1880. See Aziah as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Aziah belongs to the group of American names that end in -iah, an ending borrowed from a whole class of Hebrew names in which it is the divine name itself. It is given to girls and boys alike.
How old is the name Aziah?
Aziah first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Aziah alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 900 people named Aziah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aziah most popular?
Aziah peaked in 2017, reaching #3145 nationally. Today it ranks #3342, 197 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Aziah
Ours, offered as ours. The -iah ending has had a second life in American naming that its origin would not predict. In Hebrew it is not a decorative suffix at all — it is God, compressed into two syllables at the end of a sentence-name. Modern American naming has borrowed it as a shape: Ziah, Aziah, Nyiah, Amiah. Whether that is a loss or simply what languages do to each other is a fair question, and worth asking honestly rather than pretending the ending is empty.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established for this spelling. The -iah ending is genuinely Hebrew: it closes Isaiah, Jeremiah and Zechariah, where it is a shortened form of the divine name. There is a biblical Azaziah and an Aziza in Arabic and Hebrew alike; neither is documented as the source of this name.
Pronouncing Aziah
uh-ZY-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families say AY-zee-ah.
Nicknames for Aziah
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
- 1992
- Most girls named
- 201751 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3145reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- +31.4%46 in 2025, from 35
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.
Aziah in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Georgia, New York.
Aziahs among us
people named Aziah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 34,941 born in 2025 was named Aziah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Aziah
- #3342
- Aziah on the 2025 chart
- #405
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aziah went to 46 girls in 2025, but Asiya, Aziyah and Asiyah and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 15 spellings went to 720, which makes it the 405th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,937 places above the chart.
and 7 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 2,232 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 34,941 for Aziah 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 Slyvia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aziah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Slyvia climbed just as high around 1939, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Slyvia's path sketches the road Aziah is walking now.
Aziah 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 Aziah is headed
Aziah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. 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.
Aziah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aziah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- Ziah is a complete short form in current use.
- It works for a girl or a boy, which is useful before a birth.
- Aziah, Azaiah and Asiah are all in use and none is dominant.
- The stress is unsettled between the first and second syllables.
- There is no documented meaning, only a borrowed ending.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aziahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Aziah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Aziah?
- Aziah is one of 8 recorded spellings. Asiya is the more common one — 187 births in 2025 against 46 for Aziah.
- How popular is the name Aziah in 2025?
- Aziah ranks #3342 among US girl names in 2025, with 46 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aziah?
- About 1 in every 34,941 US girls born in 2025 was named Aziah — 46 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aziah with classmates?
- Aziah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Aziah
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