Azulai
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person plural imperative of azular (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/ɐzulaj/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Azulai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname. Azulai is also written אזולאי in Hebrew.
- ILIsrael1 in 487as אזולאי(measured from records)
- QAQatar≈1 in 16Kas אזולאי
- FRFrance≈1 in 19Kas Azoulay
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 Azulai itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 251 (measured from records)
- 1 in 487 (inferred from the name graph)
17,806 named אזולאי, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, as אזולאי
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Azulai in other scripts: Hebrew and Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled אזולאי in IL Israel, MA Morocco, QA Qatar, Azulay in US United States, CY Cyprus and Azoulay in FR France.
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.
How to pronounce Azulai
- Portuguese:/ɐzulaj/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)second-person plural imperative of azular
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Azulai is found
(measured from records)Azulai 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #11 | 17,806as אזולאי | 1 in 487 | 18K | אזולאי | 89 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 514 | Azoulay | 251 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | אזולאי | 23 |
| BR Brazil | — | 576as Azulay | 1 in 368K | 576 | — | 4 |
| US United States | — | 376as Azoulay | 1 in 885K | 403 | Azulay | 161 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | אזולאי | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Azulay | 4 |
17,806 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Azulai 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.
Bouzoulai, Oranie (berber); Alexandria, Port-Said, Jerusalem, Gibraltar, Livorno, Ancona, Tunis, Smyrna, Tanger, Maroc
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)- André Azoulayb. 1941MAnot in their usual namepolitician (born 1941)
- Audrey Azoulayb. 1972FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician (1972-)
- Anne Azoulayb. 1978FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
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)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Azulai mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person plural imperative of azular Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Azulai?
- In Portuguese /ɐzulaj/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Azulai?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named אזולאי, more than in any other country we hold. After it come France, Morocco, Brazil and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Azulai most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Azulai itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Israel's: the national register counts about 1 in 487 people named אזולאי.
- How common is the name Azulai?
- In Israel, the national register counted 17,806 people named אזולאי in 2017, about 1 in 487 residents.
- How common is Azulai compared with other names?
- In Israel, Azulai is the 11th most common surname of 325,634 surnames 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/azulaiThe 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, “Azulai” — ranked 11th in Israel (CBS Israel, 2017). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.