Highest ever

Azai

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#809
307 boys
2015
#6,707
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Azai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 307 in 2025. Its best rank was #809 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 97% of babies named Azai in 2025 were boys.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#809 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
318
Since 1880
1,600
Years on record
18

Babies named Azai, every year since 1880

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Boys

Azai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 307 boys in 2025. Peak: #809 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 307 (2025).

About the name Azai

In 2025, 307 US boys were named Azai, making it the 809th most common boys’ name of the year, up 110 places from #919 in 2024. That is 55 more than the 252 boys named Azai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #809, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 307. For comparison, it was #6,707 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Azai in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 8 babies. In all, 1,600 US babies have been given the name, 1.6% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,203 babies named Azai.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,480 US boys were named Azai; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 307. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,564 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Azai ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #356 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Asa (23,067 babies since 1880), Azaiah (2,133 babies since 1880) and Aiza (2,004 babies since 1880).

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Azai in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Azai by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
New Jersey23#356—
Pennsylvania24#427—
North Carolina19#513—
New York31#515—
Maryland9#523—
Florida29#586—
Indiana10#624—
Georgia14#676—
Wisconsin6#689—
Virginia9#738—
Michigan9#773—
Louisiana5#786—
Colorado5#862—
Texas26#939—
Ohio7#1,026—
Illinois6#1,147—
California16#1,203—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202511#8,949307#809
20249#10,390252#919
2023——167#1,197
2022——184#1,138
20216#13,728122#1,469
2020——145#1,264
2019——124#1,414
2018——88#1,746
2017——52#2,454
2016——39#2,998
2015——12#6,707
2014——15#5,763
2013——21#4,481
2012——13#6,351
2011——10#7,568
2010——8#8,888
2009——7#9,970
2008——8#9,088

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).