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).