Azriel
Feminine · “God is my help”
Azriel is given to both — 681 girls and 4,005 boys since 1880. See Azriel as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Azriel means that God is my help, and it is one of a large family of Hebrew names built the same way — a statement about God with the divine element at the end. It also names an angel in some Jewish and Islamic traditions, which gives it a weight most -el names do not carry. Its American peak on girls is 2019.
How old is the name Azriel?
Azriel first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Azriel alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 700 people named Azriel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Azriel most popular?
Azriel peaked in 2019, reaching #3388 nationally. Today it ranks #5917, 2,529 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ezer to Azriel
The story of Azriel
The -el names are among the oldest and most productive in Hebrew: Michael, Gabriel, Daniel, Samuel, Nathaniel, Israel, Azriel. Each is a short sentence with God as subject or object, and the pattern was still generating names in the biblical period. Azriel stayed rare in Christian Europe, since English-speaking Protestants took up the more prominent -el names and left the minor ones. Its modern American use is recent and belongs to the broader revival of unusual Hebrew names, and its appearance on girls in the 2010s follows the general willingness to use -el names on either sex, as Ariel, Jael and Abigail have all been used.
Meaning
God is my help
Hebrew Azri'el joins ezer, 'help', with the first-person suffix, to el, 'God'. The same ezer appears in Ezra, Eliezer and Azariah. Azriel is named several times in the Hebrew Bible as an ordinary man. Separately, in some later Jewish and Islamic traditions Azrael is the name of the angel of death, though that spelling and that figure are not in scripture and the two names are often confused.
How the name formed
- ezer
- Azri'el
- Azriel
Related forms: Azriel · Azriel · Azrail
Pronouncing Azriel
AZ-ree-el
Three syllables, stress on the first, with the -el fully sounded. Hebrew puts the stress at the end, az-ree-EL. Both are heard on American bearers, and the front-stressed version is the usual English one.
Nicknames for Azriel
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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
- 1990
- Most girls named
- 201946 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3388reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- −13.0%20 in 2025, from 23
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.
Azriel in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Azriel in Hebrew — same name
- Azriel in Spanish — same name
- Azrail in Arabic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, North Carolina.
Azriels among us
people named Azriel are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 80,363 born in 2025 was named Azriel
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Janica test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Azriel's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Janica climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Janica's path sketches the road Azriel is walking now.
Azriel 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
Azriel beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Azriel in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, theologically precise and expressible in four words.
- Az and Ari are both usable short forms with a modern character.
- It works on either sex, which suits families who do not want a sex-marked name.
- It is confused with Azrael, the angel of death in later tradition, which is a different name.
- In American use it is more common on boys, so forms will often assume male.
- Stress falls differently in English and Hebrew.
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Frequently asked
- How many Azriels are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Azriel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Azriel in 2025?
- Azriel ranks #5917 among US girl names in 2025, with 20 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Azriel?
- About 1 in every 80,363 US girls born in 2025 was named Azriel — 20 in all.
- Will my child share the name Azriel with classmates?
- Azriel will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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