Baaz
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- BAAZ
- Origin
- Persian
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,747 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #5,044 for boys
- Style
- New arrival
Baaz is a boys' name of Persian origin, meaning “falcon; hawk”. In 2025 it ranked 3,747th for boys in the UK (5 babies) and 5,044th for boys in the US (19 babies).
What does Baaz mean?
Persian: Persian baz, also used in Punjabi
“falcon; hawk”
Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, is traditionally pictured with a white hawk.
Is Baaz a girl's or a boy's name?
Baaz is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the UK and 19 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Baaz in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,747th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 60,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 633% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the UK were named Baaz, making it the 3,747th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2024, with 8 boys.
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,656th in England and Wales.
Baaz in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #3,747 |
| 2024 | 8 | #2,750 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,279 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,195 |
How popular is Baaz in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,044th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 19 about 1 in 90,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 345% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 19 boys in the US were named Baaz, making it the 5,044th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. It first appears in the records in 2020.
2025 had the most boys named Baaz of any year since it first appeared, in 2020.
Half of all the boys named Baaz in the US since 1880 were born between 2022 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Baaz in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,044 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,655 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,215 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,141 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,029 |
Names like Baaz
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Zayd, Hamza, Musa, Amir, Umar, Mustafa, Zayaan, Abdullah, Huzaifa, Khalid, Faiz
Names related to Baaz
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, “Baaz: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/baaz, updated 20 October 2026.