Given name · Arabic
عزيز
عزيز (ʕazīz) is a masculine given name. It is used in Arabic.
ArabicWritten in Arabic script, read right to left. In English: ʕazīz.
Meaning & origin
عزيز’s family of names
In Kazakh usage, عزيز has a feminine form in Ғазиза. In Arabic usage, عزيز can be written in the Roman alphabet as ʕazīz.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named عزيز
- Aziz SancarTurkish geneticist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015born 1946
- Aziz NesinTurkish writer (1915–1995)
- Aziz AkhannouchPrime Minister of Morocco since 2021born 1961
- Aziz AnsariAmerican actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and directorborn 1983
- Aziz BehichAustralian soccer playerborn 1990
- Aziz NasirzadehIranian military officer (1964–2026)
- Al-Aziz UthmanAyyubid Sultan of Egypt 1171-1198
- Aziz BouhaddouzMoroccan footballerborn 1987
- ZyzzRussian-born Australian bodybuilder and Internet celebrity1989–2011
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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