Azya
Azya was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,537 among girls’ names; 248 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Azya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Azya?
#9,537 among girls’ names, 2025
Azya rose from #16,838 in 2015 to #9,537 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 6.2 per million.
17 babies in 2006, the peak
Azya peaked in 2006, when 17 girls were given it, #7,195 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,537 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,395 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,299 | 9.3 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,006 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,374 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,893 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,060 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,070 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,838 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,282 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #14,887 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,707 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,816 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,732 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,919 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,630 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,195 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,990 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,453 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,583 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,372 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,451 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,860 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,468 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,640 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,990 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,005 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,902 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Azya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Azya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Azya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Azya, and how old are they?
An estimated 246 Americans named Azya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 7 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 182 people named Azya (177 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 190 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Azya?
Azya is a less common spelling of Aziyah: SSA has recorded 248 Azya and 1,802 Aziyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,964 babies since 1880, Azya is the eighth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 454 babies (2.2%), again the eighth 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 Azya
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 Azya and names like it
- Compare Azya and AziyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAzya peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Azya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Azya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.