Lazuli
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LAZ-yoo-lee
- Origin
- Persian
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Lazuli is a girls' name of Persian origin, meaning “azure blue”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Lazuli mean?
Persian: from lapis lazuli, via Latin and Arabic from Persian lazhward
“azure blue”
From lapis lazuli, the deep-blue gemstone; the Persian root lazhward is also the source of the English word azure.
Is Lazuli a girl's or a boy's name?
Lazuli is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lazuli in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,104among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Lazuli, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2021, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2016.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Lazuli than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Lazuli in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Lazuli in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
Names like Lazuli
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kehlani Naziyah Amoura Azari Khaleesi Zhamira Amiri Kyomi Naylani Xolani Malani Zaliyah
More Persian names
Jasper Esther Jasmine Casper Cyrus Yasmin Darius Zorawar Kiyan Rumi Yasmine Kasper Mahnoor Dario Arian Arman
Sources
Figures from 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, “Lazuli: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lazuli, updated 20 October 2026.