Azul — #1280 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Azul

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,378 babies named Azul between 1995 and 2024, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Azul currently holds the #1280 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 497 babies received it in a single year. Azul is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 299 additional births since 2003.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Azul performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,767 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Azul shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,189 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Azul in 24 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Azul 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 4,378 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.