Names of Azerbaijan AZ

Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics records Məhəmməd as the commonest given name in Azerbaijan; the names that most distinguish Azerbaijan from the rest of the world are Məmmədova, Əliyeva and Мамедов.

Written in Azerbaijani, Russian.

Population
10M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
30K
BBuilt from 2 official registers, 30,150 name forms in our corpus, 32 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

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Where the names most characteristic of Azerbaijan are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Azerbaijan included.

How names work in Azerbaijan

6 naming traditions are in use in Azerbaijan, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Azerbaijan

Counts not recorded by the publisher · authority tier 2

This register publishes counts, not ranks; the numbering is the order of its own figures.

Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics — 3,057 given names counted over a population the publisher did not record.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Məhəmməd3.6K—
2Elay1.8K—
3Elisa1.2K—
4Ömür1.1K—
5Günəş1.1K—
6Dərya984—
7David688—
8Dilək685—
9Əbəlfəz675—
10Sunay601—
11Həvva508—
12Əsra474—
13Ilknur451—
14Aras436—
15Cahan418—
16Adel416—
17Əsmanur361—
18Ayşə255—
19Mərd233—
20Sultan232—

Where the two lists disagree

25 of Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics's top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name StatisticsAcross all recordsməhəmməd: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. məhəmmədnot rankedelay: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. elaynot rankedelisa: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. elisanot rankedömür: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. ömürnot rankedgünəş: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. günəşnot rankeddərya: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. dəryanot rankeddavid: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. davidnot rankeddilək: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. diləknot rankedəbəlfəz: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. əbəlfəznot rankedsunay: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. sunaynot rankedhəvva: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. həvvanot rankedəsra: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. əsranot rankedilknur: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. ilknurnot rankedaras: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. arasnot rankedcahan: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. cahannot rankedadel: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. adelnot rankedəsmanur: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. əsmanurnot rankedayşə: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. ayşənot rankedmərd: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. mərdnot rankedsultan: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. sultannot rankedmelissa: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. melissanot rankedadelina: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. adelinanot rankedhəzrət: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. həzrətnot rankedipək: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. ipəknot rankedsədəf: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. sədəfnot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics on the left; every record we hold for Azerbaijan on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Azerbaijan

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Azerbaijan holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

BakiGenceQubaSirvanTovuzHuseynMuradAytacKönülZeynəbNigarElnurZəhraBakuVusalEmilNərgizAyselArzuSevincOmərOrxanЭльчинAyxanRaulSevdaLaləFidanElnarəXədicəSabinaAynurAdəmРусланSamirKamranEsmiraNurlanАнарSəbinəVusaleTunarZaurVuqarSeymurNarminMehribanАйсельCeyhunVüsaləUgurAyşənIlqarРовшанВугарGulnarIradəFəridEldarМамед
Sized by how much of the difference between Azerbaijan's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Over time

UğurƏliHüseynZəhraYusif202220262,032
Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Popular Baby Names, 2022–2026 (5 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Names in Azerbaijan are written in Latin (68%) and Cyrillic (32%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

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Məmmədovasurname●
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Gencegiven name●
The best-attested names in Azerbaijan, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statisticsheadline (given)

    Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Counts: not recorded. given. 3,057 forms. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Per-name birth-registration statistics from the MoJ civil registry (exidmet.justice.gov.az:8284/VVAReg/GetNameStatistic). POST {"pageNum":1, "key":<NAME>} returns rows with currentYear..fourYearsAgo + total; the API does a SUBSTRING match, so the row whose personName exactly equals the queried Azerbaijani-Latin spelling is taken. count = total (5-year birth-registration total). Seeded from the 25,613-token AZ marisa frequency list (romanized ASCII); each token expanded to Azerbaijani-Latin candidate spellings (a/ə, c/ç, g/ğ, i/ı/İ, o/ö, s/ş, u/ü), AZ-uppercased, and queried — recovering diacritic forms (ƏLİ=6189, ZƏHRA=5838) that plain-ASCII queries miss. Time-boxed first pass (~17 min, freq-desc): 2,053 seed tokens queried, 1,100 yielded >=1 registry match, 1,582 distinct names emitted (1,155 with non-zero 5-year birth count; 427 attested names with 0 recent births). Resumable — remaining ~23.5K lower-frequency tokens cached as TODO. sex from seed gender_hint. data_note=az_justice_birthreg.

    Last verified 2026-06-04.

  • Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Popular Baby Names2026

    Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Counts: not recorded. given. 50 forms. 2022–2026. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice publishes annual top-100 newborn name rankings at exidmet.justice.gov.az/VVA/NameStatistics (JS-rendered, data available 2018–2026). Data with counts 2015–2025 obtained via behindthename.com which republishes MoJ figures; cross-checked against MoJ site for 2022–2025 (counts consistent). 100 boys + 100 girls per year. All-year totals, not partial. 2025 is complete-year data. 2026 in progress, not included. Counts represent newborn registrations (not population stock).

    Last verified 2026-05-10.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Azerbaijan?
Məhəmməd, according to Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics, with 3,596 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Azerbaijan?
Because they count different people. Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Məhəmməd. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Руслан. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Azerbaijan?
No — 6 are described on this page (Azerbaijani, Russian, Ossetian, Uzbek and Russian, Chechen and Caucasian, Circassian), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Azerbaijan”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/AZ (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics.