Azara
Azara was given to 119 girls in 2025, #1,712 among girls’ names; 790 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Azara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Azara?
#1,712 among girls’ names, 2025
Azara rose from #7,672 in 2015 to #1,712 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 74.0 per million.
119 babies in 2025, the peak
Azara peaked in 2025, when 119 girls were given it, #1,712 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 100 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 119 | #1,712 | 74.0 |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,969 | 61.7 |
| 2023 | 84 | #2,234 | 52.4 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,699 | 39.0 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,116 | 31.7 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,974 | 33.4 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,458 | 26.8 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,858 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,076 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,015 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,672 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,640 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,339 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,697 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,155 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,438 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,848 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,042 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,782 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,704 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,208 | 3.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,341 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Azara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Azara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Azara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Azara, and how old are they?
An estimated 785 Americans named Azara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 346 people named Azara (339 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 328 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 31,014 babies since 1880, Azara is the eighth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 119 of their 2,499 babies (4.8%), the fifth 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 Azara
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 Azara and names like it
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