Arizona
Arizona was given to 86 girls in 2025, #2,156 among girls’ names; 3,695 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,490 Americans named Arizona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (67% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arizona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arizona mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Arizona is “a unisex given name.”
Uncertain. Possibly from O’odham alĭ ṣonak (literally “small spring”) (traditionally through the Spanish intermediary form Arizonac; compare modern Arizona), a name initially applied to an area around a silver-mining camp in Sonora. Alternatively, perhaps from Basque haritz ona (literally “good oak”), as the area had many Basque herders, and a descendant of them established the ranchería of Arizona (circa 1735) in Sonora. Suggestions of derivation from *arizuma, supposedly a Nahuatl word meaning “silver-bearing”, are considered implausible, and derivation from árida zona (literally “dry zone”) is considered a folk etymology.
/ˌæɹɪˈzoʊnə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arizona?
#2,156 among girls’ names, 2025
Arizona fell from #2,153 in 2015 to #2,156 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 49.3 to 53.5 per million.
158 babies in 2020, the peak
Arizona peaked in 2020, when 158 babies were given it (153 girls, #1,423 among girls’ names). The 86 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 | #2,156 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,824 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 124 | #1,672 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 112 | #1,820 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 112 | #1,805 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 153 | #1,423 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 127 | #1,656 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,556 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 111 | #1,843 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 117 | #1,776 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 88 | #2,153 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 100 | #1,985 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,628 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,685 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,137 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,416 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,277 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,901 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,826 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,078 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,030 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,096 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,533 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,397 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,008 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,022 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,187 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,568 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,304 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,760 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,357 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,789 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,781 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,104 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,388 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,455 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,021 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,741 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,057 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,403 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,334 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,684 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,019 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,232 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,704 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,727 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,458 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,407 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,428 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,598 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,376 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,918 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,159 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,208 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,771 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,975 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,757 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,879 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,818 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,527 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,095 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 32 | #1,426 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,449 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 27 | #1,609 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,613 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 42 | #1,197 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,465 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,302 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,472 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,217 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,603 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 39 | #1,150 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,169 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,340 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 29 | #1,120 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 27 | #1,041 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 20 | #1,180 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 22 | #934 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,341 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,109 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 19 | #913 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 16 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 21 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 25 | #717 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 21 | #776 | 0.08 |
| 1903 | 27 | #640 | 0.10 |
| 1902 | 18 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 14 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,109 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 18 | #758 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 20 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1897 | 18 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1896 | 18 | #758 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 16 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 16 | #751 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 12 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 16 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 16 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 9 | #944 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 12 | #758 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 16 | #640 | 0.09 |
| 1887 | 8 | #866 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 8 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 10 | #698 | 0.08 |
| 1883 | 14 | #521 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 13 | #510 | 0.12 |
| 1881 | 6 | #744 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 8 | #631 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arizona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,695 Americans recorded as Arizona, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 86 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arizona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arizona, and how old are they?
2,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 67% of the 3,695 Americans ever recorded as Arizona. The median Arizona alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,827 people named Arizona (1,620 women and girls, 207 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,876 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 54 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 41 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,490 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Arizona born?
The states with the most babies named Arizona are Ohio, Tennessee and Indiana, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee and Indiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 7 | #1,148 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #991 | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 6 | #927 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,058 | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,554 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 5 | #948 | 0.5× |
Where Arizona is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arizona is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Arizona with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arizona
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Arizona and names like it
- Compare Arizona and AvieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Arizona.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arizona alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.