Meaning not yet researched.
Azalea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,109 in 2025. Its best rank was #278 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Azalea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#278 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Azalea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,109 girls in 2025. Peak: #278 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,109 (2025).
In 2025, 1,109 US girls were named Azalea, making it the 278th most common girls’ name of the year, up 79 places from #357 in 2024. That is 237 more than the 872 girls named Azalea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #278, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,109. For comparison, it was #580 in 2015 and #3,242 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Azalea in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1902 with 7 babies. In all, 11,739 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 4,992 babies named Azalea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,230 US girls were named Azalea; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,109. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,449 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Azalea ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #135 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Azalia (2,328 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Azalee, Azaleah and Azaliah are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latin. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Azalee (1,526), Azaleah (713), Azaliah (523), Azelia (518), Azilee (408), Azaylia (322), Azalie (167), Azaylea (155), Azaleia (139), Azalya (132), Azaelia (129), Azaleya (127), and more.
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.
No nicknames listed for Azalea in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 11 | #135 | #171 |
| Hawaii | 6 | #141 | — |
| Colorado | 36 | #161 | #482 |
| Oregon | 20 | #181 | #389 |
| Arizona | 35 | #190 | #273 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #192 | — |
| California | 172 | #194 | #503 |
| Montana | 5 | #211 | — |
| Kansas | 14 | #223 | — |
| Texas | 154 | #225 | #455 |
| Iowa | 15 | #229 | #333 |
| Washington | 31 | #231 | #461 |
| Nevada | 11 | #241 | #552 |
| Minnesota | 23 | #242 | #779 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #248 | #369 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | #249 | #527 |
| Indiana | 28 | #253 | #702 |
| Kentucky | 17 | #260 | — |
| South Carolina | 19 | #268 | #671 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #273 | #908 |
| Florida | 70 | #275 | #737 |
| Michigan | 32 | #276 | #503 |
| Idaho | 8 | #279 | #374 |
| Utah | 15 | #292 | #631 |
| North Carolina | 36 | #304 | #604 |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | #310 | #635 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #341 | #509 |
| Alabama | 14 | #349 | #703 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #368 | #448 |
| Ohio | 30 | #371 | #747 |
| Tennessee | 21 | #380 | #948 |
| Illinois | 27 | #386 | #578 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #406 | — |
| New York | 39 | #442 | #592 |
| Missouri | 13 | #444 | — |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #485 | #689 |
| Georgia | 22 | #512 | #737 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #534 | — |
| New Jersey | 14 | #541 | — |
| Virginia | 13 | #578 | #969 |
| Maryland | 7 | #668 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,109 | #278 | — | — |
| 2024 | 872 | #357 | — | — |
| 2023 | 841 | #365 | — | — |
| 2022 | 783 | #401 | — | — |
| 2021 | 753 | #419 | — | — |
| 2020 | 634 | #483 | — | — |
| 2019 | 581 | #528 | — | — |
| 2018 | 610 | #509 | — | — |
| 2017 | 523 | #576 | — | — |
| 2016 | 524 | #586 | — | — |
| 2015 | 524 | #580 | — | — |
| 2014 | 584 | #531 | — | — |
| 2013 | 446 | #628 | — | — |
| 2012 | 296 | #893 | — | — |
| 2011 | 204 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 2010 | 165 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 2009 | 136 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 2008 | 138 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 2007 | 128 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 2006 | 121 | #1,725 | — | — |
| 2005 | 137 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 2002 | 97 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,514 | — | — |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,361 | — | — |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,678 | — | — |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,786 | — | — |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,374 | — | — |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,354 | — | — |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,072 | — | — |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,251 | — | — |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,794 | — | — |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,329 | — | — |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,299 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,205 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,101 | — | — |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,237 | — | — |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,700 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,567 | — | — |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,751 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,942 | — | — |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,863 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,787 | — | — |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,247 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,824 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,157 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,438 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,900 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,619 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,582 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,857 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,448 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,083 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,032 | — | — |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,282 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,796 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,160 | — | — |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,834 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,255 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,801 | — | — |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,149 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,295 | — | — |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,242 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,294 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,465 | — | — |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,055 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,676 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,993 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,304 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,473 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,302 | — | — |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,126 | — | — |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,338 | — | — |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,064 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,517 | — | — |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,448 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,969 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,870 | — | — |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,957 | — | — |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,164 | — | — |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,495 | — | — |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,205 | — | — |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,323 | — | — |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,551 | — | — |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,224 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,457 | — | — |
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).