Lazar
Lazar reached its high-water mark in 2012 at number 2,954, and has been recorded 811 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,249th. About 790 Lazars are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Lazar
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 811
- Estimated living today
- 790
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2012
- Best rank
- 2,954th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,249th
- First recorded
- 1931
How old the living Lazars are
born that year still alive today
Of the 811 babies given the name since 1931, about 790 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Serbo-Croatian
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Lazar, ultimately from Ancient Greek Λάζαρος, from Hebrew אלעזר.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lazars
- Lazar Kaganovich (1893–1991)Soviet politician
- Lazar Hrebeljanović (1329–1389)Medieval Serbian ruler
- Lazar Marković (born 1994)Serbian association football player
- Lazar Mojsov (1920–2011)Yugoslav Macedonian politician
- Lazar Samardžić (born 2002)Serbian-German association football player
- Lazar Koliševski (1914–2000)Yugoslav Macedonian political leader
- Lazar Branković (1427–1458)Despot of Serbia
- Lazar Berman (1930–2005)Russian pianist
People named Lazar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lazar is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lazar is most concentrated in Illinois (7.7×), New York (7.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2012
The most popular boys’ names the year Lazar peaked:
Lazar elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Lazar | 572 | 230th |
| France boys | Lazar | 460 | 1,237th |
| England and Wales boys | Lazar | 86 | 2,160th |
| Belgium boys | Lazar | 5 | 1,385th |
| Poland boys | Lazar | 4 birth registrations | 663rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lazar: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Lazar | 499 | 0.040% | 179th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Lazar | 55 | 0.013% | 284th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Lazar | 18 | 0.028% | 117th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Lazar is most concentrated in Aargau, where 0.06% of children were given it – 79 of them.
Lazar by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 25 | 354th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Lazar among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Lazar | 5 | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Lazar against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.