The name עזריה (Azariah) or the slightly expanded but essentially the same name עזריהו (Azariahu) is among the most popular in the Bible. The Old Testament counts no fewer than 21 individuals with that name. Most famously is one of the three friends of Daniel, whose name was Azariah but who was given the Babylonian name Abed-nego (Daniel 1, 7).

Other Azariahs are:

• A great-grandson of Judah and Tamar (1Chronicles 2, 8).
• A grandson of Obed (1Chronicles 2, 38).
• A son of another Obed, also spelled Azariahu (2Chronicles 15, 1).
• A son of yet another Obed, also spelled Azariahu (2Chronicles 23, 1).
• A Kohathite in the time of David (1Chronicles 6, 36).
• A son of Zadok, a high priest during the reign of Solomon — spelled Azariahu (1Kings 4, 2).
• A son of Nathan, an officer under Solomon, also spelled Azariahu (1Kings 4, 5).
• A son of high priest Ahimaaz during Rehoboam (1Chronicles 6, 9).
• One of the two sons of Jehoshaphat (2Chronicles 21, 2).
• Another name of Ahaziah, king of Judah (2Chronicles 22, 6 — some translations simply say Ahaziah but the Hebrew reads Azariahu).
• A son of Jeroham (2Chronicles 23, 1).
• A son of Johanan (Ezra 7, 3).
• A son of Amaziah, king of Judah (called Azariahu in 2 Kings 15:6 and עזיה, Uzziah in 2Kings 15, 13).
• Azariahu, a high priest during the reign of king Uzziah (2Chronicles 26, 17).
• A son of another Johanan during the reign of king Ahaz (2Chronicles 28, 12).
• A high priest during the reign of king Hezekiah (2Chronicles 31, 10).
• A son of Joel during the reign of king Hezekiah (2Chronicles 29, 12)
• A son of Hilkiah (Ezra 7, 1).
• The last high priest before the exile to Babylon (Nehemiah 7, 7).
• One of the spokesmen, a.k.a. Jezaniah, who oppose Jeremiah (Jeremiah 43, 2).
• A man among the first of the rabbis (Nehemiah 8, 7).