Azul
Azul is given to both girls and boys: 169 girls and 38 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,319 among girls’ names and #3,136 among boys’, #2,157 among all names counting both); 4,885 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,850 Americans named Azul and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Azul by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Azul?
#1,319 among girls’ names, 2025
Azul rose from #1,427 in 2015 to #1,319 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.11 per 1,000.
506 babies in 2008, the peak
Azul peaked in 2008, when 506 babies were given it (497 girls, #615 among girls’ names). The 207 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 41% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 169 | #1,319 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 181 | #1,281 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 170 | #1,331 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 187 | #1,279 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 137 | #1,534 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 109 | #1,810 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 136 | #1,571 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 114 | #1,789 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 112 | #1,834 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 114 | #1,816 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 162 | #1,427 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 162 | #1,410 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 180 | #1,302 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 227 | #1,089 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 234 | #1,055 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 326 | #822 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 358 | #792 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 497 | #615 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 405 | #723 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,084 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 75 | #2,357 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,424 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,184 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,265 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,260 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,301 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,323 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,596 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,327 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,794 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,096 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Azul a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,885 Americans recorded as Azul, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Azul: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Azul, and how old are they?
4,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,885 Americans ever recorded as Azul. The median Azul alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 3,177 people named Azul (3,005 women and girls, 172 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,711 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 28 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,230 |
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 Azul born?
The states with the most babies named Azul are California, Texas and Arizona, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 44 | #815 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 39 | #763 | 2.4× |
| Arizona | 10 | #639 | 3.0× |
| Illinois | 9 | #942 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,567 | 0.5× |
| New York | 7 | #1,677 | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 6 | #809 | 1.0× |
| New Mexico | 5 | #313 | 2.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,197 | 0.2× |
Where Azul is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Azul is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1995 it was given 3.0 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 Azul with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,190 babies since 1880, Azul is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 207 of their 485 babies (43%), again the most given.
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 Azul
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 Azul and names like it
- Compare Azul and AyzalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAzul peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Azul since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Azul.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Azul alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.