Azucena
Azucena was given to 41 girls in 2025, #3,652 among girls’ names; 3,783 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,680 Americans named Azucena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 18 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Azucena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Azucena mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Azucena is “a female given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Lily” Its etymology gives the sense “lily” (azucena).
From azucena (“lily”). Cognate with Portuguese Açucena and doublet of Susana.
/aθuˈθena/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Azucena?
#3,652 among girls’ names, 2025
Azucena fell from #3,356 in 2015 to #3,652 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.9 to 25.5 per million.
194 babies in 2001, the peak
Azucena peaked in 2001, when 194 girls were given it, #1,090 among girls’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,652 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,467 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,774 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,217 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,976 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,403 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,355 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,571 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,202 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,468 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #3,356 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,007 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,773 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,011 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,730 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 102 | #1,959 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 93 | #2,152 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 151 | #1,532 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,655 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 117 | #1,774 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,707 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 118 | #1,644 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 150 | #1,348 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 170 | #1,196 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 194 | #1,090 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 87 | #1,936 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 86 | #1,843 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,884 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 92 | #1,695 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 83 | #1,778 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 84 | #1,730 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 101 | #1,531 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 88 | #1,693 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 91 | #1,660 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 82 | #1,746 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 90 | #1,641 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,115 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,594 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,437 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,782 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,137 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,303 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,786 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,836 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 50 | #2,062 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,490 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,531 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,015 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,218 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,551 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,887 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,761 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,350 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,316 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,556 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,857 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,490 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,852 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,032 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,929 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,334 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,266 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,199 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,307 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,485 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,349 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,357 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,456 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,894 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,477 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,783 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,661 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Azucena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Azucena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Azucena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Azucena, and how old are they?
3,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,783 Americans ever recorded as Azucena. The median Azucena alive today is 25 years old; half are between 18 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 8,376 people named Azucena (8,348 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,489 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times 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 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 53 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 299 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 973 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,790 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 563 |
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 Azucena born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #1,971 | 3.2× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,242 | 1.7× |
Where Azucena is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Azucena is most over-represented in California: since 1917 it was given 3.2 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 Azucena with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Azucena
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 Azucena and names like it
- Compare Azucena and CharismaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAzucena peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Azucena since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Azucena: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Azucena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Azucena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.