Azaad
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- a-ZAHD
- Origin
- Persian
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,329 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #5,044 for boys
Azaad is a boys' name of Persian origin, meaning “free”. In 2025 it ranked 3,329th for boys in the UK (6 babies) and 5,044th for boys in the US (19 babies).
What does Azaad mean?
Persian: spelling of Azad
“free”
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a leader of India's independence movement, became its first education minister.
Meaning borrowed from Azad.
Is Azaad a girl's or a boy's name?
Azaad is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the UK and 19 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Azaad in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,329among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 50,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 300% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the UK were named Azaad, making it the 3,329th most popular name for boys.
In 2025, 18 boys in the UK were given Azaad or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,326, up from #3,329 for this spelling alone.
- Azad 12
- Azaad 6
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,239th in England and Wales.
Azaad in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,329 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,193 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
How popular is Azaad in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,044among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 19about 1 in 90,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 85% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 19 boys in the US were named Azaad, making it the 5,044th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. It first appears in the records in 2015.
It has been given to more boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most boys named Azaad of any year since it first appeared, in 2015.
Half of all the boys named Azaad in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Azaad in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,044 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,655 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,512 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,027 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,548 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,691 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
Names like Azaad
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ahmed Muhammad Ahad Imaad Abdur Fahad Hammad Abdul-Ahad Abdullah Ayad Ziyad Azeem
Other spellings of Azaad
Names related to Azaad
More Persian names
Jasper Esther Jasmine Casper Cyrus Yasmin Darius Zorawar Kiyan Rumi Yasmine Kasper Mahnoor Dario Arian Arman
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Azaad: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/azaad, updated 20 October 2026.