Azrael
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Azrael is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In English, recorded as The angel of death in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, and in Islam.
- USUnited States1 in 306K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 680K
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 306K (inferred from the name graph)
1,086 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The angel of death in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, and in Islam.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Azrael is read(measured from records)
Azrael is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Spanish38%
Variante de Azriel; nombre hebreo relacionado con el socorro divino.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English35%
The angel of death in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, and in Islam.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Azrael 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,086 | 1 in 306K | 883 | Azrael | 96 |
| BR Brazil | 52 | 1 in 4.1M | 52 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 21 | 1 in 2.4M | 21 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 15 | 1 in 680K | 15 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
1,086 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Azrael 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 Portuguese, Azrael (angel of death)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Azrael mean, and where does it come from?
- The angel of death in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, and in Islam. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Azrael a male or female name?
- Azrael 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.
- What are other forms of the name Azrael?
- In the etymology graph, Azriel, Azarel and Azareel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Azrael?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,086 people named Azrael in 2020, about 1 in 306 thousand residents.
- In which country does Azrael have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Azrael, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled azrael.
- Where is Azrael most common?
- Azrael is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 306 thousand people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Azrael?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/azraelThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Azrael”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.