Azalia
Azalia was given to 78 girls in 2025, #2,331 among girls’ names; 2,328 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,100 Americans named Azalia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Azalia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Azalia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Azalia is “a female given name.”
From azalia, an archaic form of azalea.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Azalia?
#2,331 among girls’ names, 2025
Azalia rose from #2,652 in 2015 to #2,331 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 37.5 to 48.5 per million.
95 babies in 2024, the peak
Azalia peaked in 2024, when 95 girls were given it, #2,041 among girls’ names. The 78 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,331 | 48.5 |
| 2024 | 95 | #2,041 | 58.6 |
| 2023 | 79 | #2,317 | 49.2 |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,229 | 51.2 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,421 | 45.1 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,455 | 27.2 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,506 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,251 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,058 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,977 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,652 | 37.5 |
| 2014 | 81 | #2,291 | 45.3 |
| 2013 | 88 | #2,139 | 50.1 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,323 | 27.8 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,844 | 34.7 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,810 | 34.9 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,310 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,871 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,253 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,512 | 23.7 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,867 | 30.8 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,000 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,003 | 27.4 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,523 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,031 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,413 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,576 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,971 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,630 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,747 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,993 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,859 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,549 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,572 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,663 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,578 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,897 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,345 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,628 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,552 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,705 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,495 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,488 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,788 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,282 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,535 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,451 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,265 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,616 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,402 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,274 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,802 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,216 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,806 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,042 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,081 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,010 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,679 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,489 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,628 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,903 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,895 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,209 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,602 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,712 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,340 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,772 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,737 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,931 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,329 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,702 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,663 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,914 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,356 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,233 | 4.3 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,409 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,801 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,879 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,835 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,787 | 5.7 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,782 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,344 | 5.0 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,164 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,931 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,083 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,183 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,120 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,888 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,879 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,902 | 9.2 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,828 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,139 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,231 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,387 | 12.5 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,507 | 12.0 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,982 | 17.3 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,099 | 15.7 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,720 | 20.6 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,700 | 20.9 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,521 | 23.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Azalia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Azalia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Azalia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Azalia, and how old are they?
2,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 2,328 Americans ever recorded as Azalia. The median Azalia alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,858 people named Azalia (1,853 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,690 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 110 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 154 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 263 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 677 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 887 |
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 Azalia born?
The states with the most babies named Azalia are Texas, California and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,471 | 1.7× |
| California | 11 | #1,854 | 1.1× |
| New York | 6 | #1,868 | 0.3× |
Where Azalia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Azalia is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Azalia 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, Azalia is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 78 of their 1,513 babies (5.2%), the third most given that year.
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 Azalia
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 Azalia and names like it
- Compare Azalia and AzaleaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAzalia peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Azalia since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Azalia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Azalia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.