Girls' name · since 2019
Azal
Azal has 44 recorded births since 2019 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2022 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #36,362 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,702 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 44
- born since 2019
- 2020s
- peak decade
Azal currently ranks #16702 among girls' names in America, with 44 babies recorded since 2019.
Social Security Administration records show Azal recorded 44 times among girls since 2019, holding rank #16702 nationally today, ahead of 3% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2019 to 2025.
- #36,362 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,702 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 44 born since 2019
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Azal ranks #36,362 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,702 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 44 born since 2019, peaking in the 2020s.
- #36,362 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,702 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 44
- born since 2019
- 2020s
- peak decade
Azal's 44 recorded births place it above 49.4% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Azal compares
44 14th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Azal's all-time total is 88% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Azal | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 44 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 10 | 21 | 19,840 |
Azal's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Azal's SSA record in two at 2023 and the more recent half accounts for 48% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 52%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2025, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2022 peak of 10, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Azal popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–2025
- Peak year (2022)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 7 years of records
Azal by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (37 births, 84% of the file).
2020s was Azal's strongest decade.
37 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 84% of all-time use.
Azal births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 7
2010s
7 births
- 2020s
2020s
37 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 37 births (84% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2019–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Azal draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.