Unisex name · since 2007
Azayah
Azayah has 116 recorded births since 2007 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #25,484 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,229 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 116
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
116 babies have been named Azayah since 2007, making it today's #8229 unisex name.
Azayah has 116 recorded births among girls since 2007, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #8229 as of the latest data, more common than 52% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2007 to 2025.
- #25,484 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #8,229 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 116 born since 2007
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Azayah ranks #25,484 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,229 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 116 born since 2007, peaking in the 2020s.
- #25,484 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,229 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 116
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
Azayah's 116 recorded births place it above 64.64% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Azayah compares
116 27th 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
Azayah's all-time total is 69% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Azayah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 116 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 15 | 21 | 19,840 |
Azayah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Azayah's SSA record in two at 2019 and the more recent half accounts for 56% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 44%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2015, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2023 peak of 15, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Azayah popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 19 years of records
Azayah popularity over time - boys
86 total births recorded since 2009 (Azayah as boys' name)
Azayah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (59 births, 51% of the file).
2020s was Azayah's strongest decade.
59 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 51% of all-time use.
Azayah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 6
2000s
6 births
- 2010s
2010s
51 births
- 2020s
2020s
59 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 59 births (51% 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, 2007–2025 (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 Azayah 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.