Lazaria
Feminine · “Hebrew Elazar”
Lazarus gave his name to a building type. Medieval Europe called its leper houses lazar houses, and Venice, quarantining ships off its shore, called the island hospital a lazaretto, so a man raised from the dead ended up naming the architecture of contagion.
How old is the name Lazaria?
Lazaria first appears in US birth records in 1996 — 29 years ago. The typical Lazaria alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 500 people named Lazaria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lazaria most popular?
Lazaria peaked in 2000, reaching #3983 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 6,124 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Elazar to Lazaria
The story of Lazaria
The beggar in the parable is covered in sores, and medieval Europe took him for the patron of the diseased, so hospitals for the leprous were called lazar houses across the continent, and an order of knights, the Order of Saint Lazarus, was founded to run them. When Venice began holding arriving ships offshore against plague, the island it used carried a church of Santa Maria di Nazareth, and the two names blurred into lazaretto, which became the standard European word for a quarantine station. Quarantine itself comes from quaranta, the forty days a ship had to wait. So one Aramaic-Hebrew name, meaning God has helped, stands behind the entire vocabulary of medieval public health, and Lazaria is a modern American feminine built on it.
Meaning
Hebrew Elazar, God has helped
Lazaria is a feminine formation on Lazarus, the Greek form of Hebrew Elazar, meaning God has helped. Two figures share the name in the gospels: the man raised at Bethany and the beggar in a parable, and later usage conflated them. The peak is 2000.
How the name formed
- Elazar
- Lazaros
- Lazarus
- Lazaria
Related forms: Lazara · Lazzara · Elazar
Pronouncing Lazaria
luh-ZAR-ee-uh
Four syllables, stress on the second. The Hebrew Elazar has the stress at the end and keeps the opening vowel that Greek dropped.
Nicknames for Lazaria
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
- 1996
- Most girls named
- 200936 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3983reached in 2000
- Change vs 2024
- −25.0%9 in 2025, from 12
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.
Lazaria in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lazara in Spanish — same name
- Lazzara in Italian — related form
- Elazar in Hebrew — related form
Lazarias among us
people named Lazaria are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Lazaria
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Lazaria
- #10107
- Lazaria on the 2025 chart
- #946
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Lazaria went to 9 girls in 2025, but Lazariah is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 14, which makes it the 946th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,161 places above the chart.
- Lazaria9
- Lazariah5
About 1 girl in 114,805 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 178,585 for Lazaria 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 Keyonia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lazaria's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Keyonia climbed just as high around 1985, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Keyonia's path sketches the road Lazaria is walking now.
Lazaria 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
Lazaria beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lazaria in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ria and Zaria are both current names and work as short forms.
- The Hebrew meaning is documented and unambiguous.
- Four syllables with a clear early stress.
- Four syllables is long before a surname.
- The name's masculine form carries a strong biblical association.
- The 2000 peak dates it closely.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lazarias 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 Lazaria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Lazaria?
- Lazaria is the most-used spelling in US records — 9 of the 14 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Lazariah.
- How popular is the name Lazaria in 2025?
- Lazaria ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lazaria?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Lazaria — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lazaria with classmates?
- Lazaria will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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