The Azizi surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,510 people carried this name — #18,347 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 196,100 people counted. That is up 56% from 968 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
1,515 people named Azizi live in Switzerland.
They live in 22 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 685 people named Azizi live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 245 people named Azizi.
Most of them — 153 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 25 départements, most often Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
1,549 people named Azizi are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Azizi,
with a public archive behind them.
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Seypidin Azizi 1915–2003 · politician -
Seypidin Azizi 1915–2003 · politician -
Seypidin Azizi 1915–2003 · politician -
Alireza Azizi 1950–2021 · association football player -
Alireza Azizi 1950–2021 · association football player -
Mohamed Nadir Azizi 1941– · director
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Azizi.
When the index is not enough
This page says where Azizi is.
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