Azalea
Azalea was given to 1,109 girls in 2025, #278 among girls’ names; 11,739 Americans have been recorded with it since 1902 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,300 Americans named Azalea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Azalea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Azalea mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Azalea is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Azalea?
#278 among girls’ names, 2025
Azalea rose from #580 in 2015 to #278 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.29 to 0.69 per 1,000.
1,109 babies in 2025, the peak
Azalea peaked in 2025, when 1,109 girls were given it, #278 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 872 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,109 | #278 | 0.69 |
| 2024 | 872 | #357 | 0.54 |
| 2023 | 841 | #365 | 0.52 |
| 2022 | 783 | #401 | 0.48 |
| 2021 | 753 | #419 | 0.46 |
| 2020 | 634 | #483 | 0.39 |
| 2019 | 581 | #528 | 0.35 |
| 2018 | 610 | #509 | 0.36 |
| 2017 | 523 | #576 | 0.30 |
| 2016 | 524 | #586 | 0.30 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 524 | #580 | 0.29 |
| 2014 | 584 | #531 | 0.33 |
| 2013 | 446 | #628 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 296 | #893 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 204 | #1,184 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 165 | #1,394 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 136 | #1,641 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 138 | #1,636 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 128 | #1,706 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 121 | #1,725 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 137 | #1,513 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,926 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,926 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 97 | #1,844 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,977 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,510 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,472 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,428 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,358 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,674 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,781 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,369 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,349 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,094 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,066 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,246 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,788 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,324 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,296 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,202 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,099 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,236 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,699 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,565 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,750 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,941 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,862 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,787 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,246 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,823 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,155 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,438 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,898 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,617 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,580 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,447 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,082 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,031 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,281 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,795 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,159 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,833 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,254 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,799 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,519 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,148 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,294 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,241 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,292 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,464 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,054 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,674 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,991 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,302 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,471 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,300 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,124 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,940 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,336 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,062 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,515 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,447 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,967 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,868 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,580 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,956 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,163 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,145 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,495 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,205 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,712 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,398 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,890 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,322 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,038 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,550 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,453 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,681 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,856 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,224 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,447 | 0.01 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,620 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,098 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,160 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,719 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,673 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,816 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,457 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Azalea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Azalea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Azalea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Azalea, and how old are they?
11,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 11,739 Americans ever recorded as Azalea. The median Azalea alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 5,474 people named Azalea (5,463 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,505 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 91 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 153 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 355 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,730 |
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 Azalea born?
The states with the most babies named Azalea are California, Texas and Florida, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 172 | #194 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 154 | #225 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 70 | #275 | 0.8× |
| New York | 39 | #442 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 36 | #161 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 36 | #304 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 35 | #190 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | #310 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 32 | #276 | 0.7× |
| Washington | 31 | #231 | 1.0× |
Where Azalea is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Azalea is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 2.0 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 Azalea with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,616 babies since 1880, Azalea is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,109 of their 1,513 babies (73%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Azalea
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 Azalea and names like it
- Compare Azalea and AzaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAzalea peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Azalea since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Azalea.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Azalea alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.