Given name & surname · also Turkish
Azat
“free”
Azat is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish (ultimately Classical Persian), meaning “free.” It is used in Turkish and Zazaki.
Original Persianآزاد
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Azat comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Classical Persian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish آزاد (âzâd, “free”), from Classical Persian آزاد (āzād).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2022. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Azat through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 236 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Azat’s family of names
In Zazaki usage, Azat shares a linguistic root with the Persian form آزاد. Azat is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Азат. In Armenian usage, Azat is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Ազատ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Azat has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Persian roots to each of them.
Persianwhere Azat comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Azat
- Azat SherentsArmenian actor (1913–1993)
- Azat MiftakhovRussian mathematicianborn 1993
- Azat AbdullinSoviet writer (1931–2023)1930–2023
- Azat Vshtuni(1894-1958)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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