Given name & surname
Azem
“great, magnificent, exalted”
Azem is a masculine given name. It is used in Albanian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Azem goes back to Arabic عظيم, meaning “great, magnificent, exalted.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2025. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Azem through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,260 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,260 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 181 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.
Azem’s family of names
Azem has a conventional equivalent in the German form Azim. Azem has a conventional equivalent in the English form Azeem.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Azem
- Azem GalicaAlbanian rebel (1889–1924)
- Azem VllasiKosovar politicianborn 1948
- Azem HajdariAlbanian politician (1963-1998)
- Azem Maksutajkickboxerborn 1975
- Azem ShkreliAlbanian writer (1938-1997)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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