Azelia
Azelia was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,778 among girls’ names; 518 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Azelia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Azelia?
#4,778 among girls’ names, 2025
Azelia rose from #5,310 in 2015 to #4,778 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.0 to 17.4 per million.
39 babies in 2024, the peak
Azelia peaked in 2024, when 39 girls were given it, #3,829 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,778 | 17.4 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,829 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,144 | 15.6 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,808 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,781 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,357 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,055 | 15.5 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,333 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,872 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,447 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,310 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,339 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,515 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,143 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,322 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,783 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,597 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,568 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,125 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,301 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,841 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,342 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,058 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,881 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,844 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,251 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,678 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,637 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,988 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,661 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,562 | 3.0 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,919 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,509 | 4.8 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,048 | 4.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,881 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Azelia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Azelia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Azelia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Azelia, and how old are they?
An estimated 493 Americans named Azelia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 390 people named Azelia (387 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 341 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
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 16,698 babies since 1880, Azelia is the fifth most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 1,497 babies (1.9%), the seventh 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 Azelia
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 Azelia and names like it
- Compare Azelia and AzaleaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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