Azriel
Azriel is a Hebrew name meaning "God helps". Notable people with the name include:
- Biblical
- Biblical Hebrew
Meaning & Origin of Azriel
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Azriel is a Hebrew name meaning "God helps". Notable people with the name include:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Biblical
- Biblical Hebrew
The Story of Azriel
As a girl name
Azriel first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 1990, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2019: 46 births, good for #3,388 nationwide. About 37% of every Azriel on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Azriel ranks #5,900 for girls with 20 births, falling sharply (-20%). All told, over 701 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
Azriel first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a boy name in 1972, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2026: 539 births, good for #549 nationwide. About 60% of every Azriel on record arrived during the 2020s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Azriel ranks #549 for boys with 539 births, rising sharply (+179% over the past five years). All told, over 4K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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Notable people named Azriel
A small selection from Wikipedia. Tap "Read more" below to see the full list on Wikipedia.
- Azriel, the father of Seraiah in the Bible, see Jeremiah 36#Verse 26
- Azriel of Gerona (c. 1160–c. 1238), Catalan kabbalist
- Azriel Graeber (born 1948), Talmudic Scholar and founder of the Jewish Scholarship Society
- Azriel Hildesheimer (1820–1899), German rabbi
- Azriel Zelig Hausdorf (1826–1905), Prussian philanthropist
- Azriel Lévy (born 1934), Logician, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- Azriel Rabinowitz (1905–1941), Lithuanian rabbi and Holocaust victim
- Azriel Rosenfeld (1931–2004), American professor and expert on computer image analysis
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About the name Azriel
Azriel is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1972 and has accumulated 4K births in the dataset. Azriel's peak popularity came in 2026 when it ranked #549. Use the chart and map above to compare Azriel's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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