Azlan
Masculine · “Lion”
Azlan is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,337 boys against 13 girls since 1880.
Azlan is the Malay spelling of an old Turkic word for lion, one carried east along trade and faith routes until it settled in Malaysia and Indonesia as an everyday given name. It is two clean syllables that land on the first — the same shape as Aslan and Arslan, its cousins across Turkey, Central Asia and South Asia. Short, unambiguous when spoken, and rooted in a word people have been naming sons after for a very long time.
How old is the name Azlan?
Azlan first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Azlan is a kid of about 3 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,300 people named Azlan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Azlan most popular?
Azlan peaked in 2025, reaching #977 nationally. Today it ranks #977, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Arslan to Azlan
The story of Azlan
The word behind Azlan is Turkic: arslan, 'lion', used as a personal name across the Turkic-speaking world for many centuries and shortened over time to aslan in Turkish. It traveled with Islam and with trade into Persia, South Asia and the Malay world, where Malay spelling turned the s into a z. In Malaysia it became thoroughly local — Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak, who served a term as the country's king in the late twentieth century, is the best-known bearer, and the international field hockey tournament named after him keeps the name in headlines each year. In the United States it arrives with families from those regions, and has been climbing steadily since it first appeared.
Meaning
Lion
From Turkic arslan / aslan, 'lion'. Azlan is the Malay-Indonesian spelling of that word; Arslan, Aslan and Arsalan are the same name in other languages.
How the name formed
- Arslan
- Aslan
- Azlan
Related forms: Aslan · Arslan · Arsalan · Arystan · Aslan · Azlan
Pronouncing Azlan
AZ-lan
Stress on the first syllable. Malay speakers say it closer to AHZ-lahn, with fuller vowels; both are the same name and neither needs correcting.
Nicknames for Azlan
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
- 2000
- Most boys named
- 2025234 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #977reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +36.8%234 in 2025, from 171
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.
Azlan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aslan in Turkish — spelling variant
- Arslan in Turkic / Central Asian — same name
- Arsalan in Urdu / Persian — related form
- Arystan in Kazakh — related form
- Aslan in Azerbaijani — spelling variant
- Azlan in Indonesian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Azlans among us
people named Azlan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 7,299 born in 2025 was named Azlan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Azlan
- #977
- Azlan on the 2025 chart
- #485
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Azlan went to 234 boys in 2025, but Aslan and Azlaan are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 551, which makes it the 485th most-given boys’ name of the year — 492 places above the chart.
- Aslan280
- Azlan234
- Azlaan37
About 1 boy in 3,100 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 7,299 for Azlan 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 Danniel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Azlan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Danniel climbed just as high around 1950, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Danniel's path sketches the road Azlan is walking now.
Azlan is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Azlan is headed
Azlan looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 52% 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.
Azlan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Azlan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled the way it sounds in English — two syllables, no silent letters, nothing to spell out twice.
- It will be written as Aslan by people who know the Narnia lion or the Turkish spelling. Expect to correct the s to a z fairly often, in writing more than in speech.
- The Narnia connection cuts both ways: some people will hear a beloved children's book, others will make the same joke more than once. Both fade quickly.
- In American classrooms a child named Azlan is very likely to be the only one — no shared name, but also no built-in recognition when a teacher reads the roll for the first time.
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Masculine · #977 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Azlans 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 Azlan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Azlan?
- Azlan is one of 3 recorded spellings. Aslan is the more common one — 280 births in 2025 against 234 for Azlan.
- How popular is the name Azlan in 2025?
- Azlan ranks #977 among US boy names in 2025, with 234 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Azlan?
- About 1 in every 7,299 US boys born in 2025 was named Azlan — 234 in all.
- Will my child share the name Azlan with classmates?
- Azlan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Azlan
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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