Aza — #5976 US unisex name
490 babies named Aza in U.S. Social Security records since 1920, with the highest year being 2019. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 66% of names given to girls today.
34% of everyone ever named Aza was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Aza in 2019 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Aza
The Social Security Administration has registered 490 babies named Aza between 1920 and 2024, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aza currently holds the #5976 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Aza is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 96 additional births since 1976.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Aza performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 168 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Aza shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Aza in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Aza in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 490 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Aza at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Aza popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1920
- Peak year (2019)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 105 years of records
Currently ranks #5976 among girls.
490 total births across 105 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2019 with 26 births in a single year.
Aza popularity over time — boys
96 total births recorded since 1976 (Aza as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Aza accounts for 16% of total recorded use across both genders.
Aza by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 168 births that decade — 34% of Aza's all-time total
Aza decade highlights
- Peak decade 168 births
- Runner-up 110 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Aza's strongest decade
168 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Aza by state
Where Aza concentrates geographically — total births since 1920
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 10 | 2.0% |
10 of 490 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1920–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.