Azariah — #652 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Azariah

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,920 babies named Azariah between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Azariah currently holds the #652 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 528 babies received it in a single year. Azariah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,906 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Azariah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,946 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Azariah shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 700 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Azariah in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Azariah 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 6,920 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.