A form of Azariah, meaning Yahweh has helped.
Azarias is the Greek and Latin rendering of the Hebrew name Azariah (עֲזַרְיָה), composed of 'azar' (to help) and 'Yah' (a shortened form of the divine name YHWH), yielding the meaning 'God has helped' or 'helped by Yahweh.' It is a name with deep and varied Biblical roots — the Hebrew scriptures contain more than two dozen distinct individuals named Azariah, spanning kings, priests, prophets, and officials, making it one of the most widely borne names in the ancient Israelite world.
Most dramatically, Azariah appears in the Book of Daniel as the Hebrew name of Abednego, one of the three young men cast into Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace and miraculously preserved — a story of faith under imperial persecution that became one of the most iconic in Judeo-Christian tradition. In the deuterocanonical 'Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Young Men,' inserted into the Book of Daniel in the Greek Septuagint, Azariah prays from within the flames — giving the name a specifically literary and liturgical presence in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity that the shorter Protestant canon does not include. The Greek form Azarias was used in early Christian communities and appears in medieval saint lists, including Azarias as one of the names given to the archangel Raphael in the Book of Tobit, where he travels in mortal disguise.
Azarias fell from common use in Northern Europe as Biblical names were narrowed and simplified across centuries, but it has never entirely disappeared. Today it appeals to families seeking a name of genuine antiquity and spiritual gravity — something that sounds both ancient and resonant, with the regal elongation of five syllables and a story stretching from Jerusalem to Babylon and back.