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Around the globe, آزاده (Azadeh , Azade , آزاده) is quite a rare primarily female, but scarcely masculine first name. The first name آزاده is characteristic of Iran, where it is quite a rare female name, Azerbaijan, and United Arab Emirates, where it is a rare feminine name. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Iran, the United States, and Turkey. Much less frequently, آزاده is the last name as well as the forename.
آزاده is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Azadeh (Shahnameh) , the slave-girl harpist in Persian literature, Shahnameh.