Azat
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkmen: free
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/azˈat/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Azat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Turkmenistan it is the 5th most common given name.
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 176(inferred from the name graph)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 1.3K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 8.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Azat itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 176 (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 named Азат, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Азат in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and Ազատ in AM Armenia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
free
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Azat is read(measured from records)
Azat is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish36%
Kurtulmuş, serbest, özgür.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Turkmen26%
free
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Russian18%
Azat, martyr. Died c341.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Azat counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #181 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | #116 | Азат | 156 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #5 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 176 | #3 | Azat | 23 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #318 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 10K | Азат | 48 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | #98 | Azat | 52 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #179 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Азат | 29 |
| AM Armenia | #193 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Ազատ | 34 |
| US United States | — | 236 | 1 in 1.4M | 225 | Azat | 100 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; the tr-tuik-child-stats register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Azat is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A member of the middle and lower Armenian nobility, in contrast to the naxarars who were the great lords; from the Late Middle Ages, member of the entire body of the Armenian nobility.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Azat Manukyanb. 1878AMArmenian composer
- Azat Vshtunib. 1894TR(1894-1958)
- Azat Sherentsb. 1913AMArmenian actor (1913–1993)
- Azat Haydeyanb. 1919AMArmenian pedagogue
- Azat Leyloyanb. 1926AMArmenian painter and teacher
- Azat Hambaryanb. 1926AMArmenian historian
- Azat Shaginyanb. 1928AMArmenian writer
- Azat Abdullinb. 1931RUSoviet writer (1931–2023)
- Azat Gasparyanb. 1943AMSoviet actor (1943-2013)
- Azat Arshakyanb. 1950AMArmenian politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 225 | #34,544 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11 | #34,544 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 6 | — |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2004 | — | #98 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Azat mean, and where does it come from?
- free Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Azat?
- A machine transcription gives /azˈat/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Azat a male or female name?
- Azat is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Azat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Азат in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Azat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 236 people named Azat in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Azat compared with other names?
- In Russia, Azat is the 181st most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/azatThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Azat” — the 181st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.