Meaning not yet researched.
Azul: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 169 in 2025. Its best rank was #615 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #615 in 2008; #1,319 in 2025. About 82% of babies named Azul in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,319 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #615.
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Azul: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 169 girls in 2025. Peak: #615 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 497 (2008).
In 2025, 169 US girls were named Azul, making it the 1,319th most common girls’ name of the year, down 38 places from #1,281 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 181 girls named Azul in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #615, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 497. For comparison, it was #1,427 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 38 US boys were named Azul, making it the 3,137th most common boys’ name of the year, down 342 places from #2,795 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 46 boys named Azul in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,583, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 51. For comparison, it was #8,837 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Azul in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 12 babies. In all, 4,885 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 6.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,861 babies named Azul.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,429 US girls were named Azul; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 187. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,510 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Azul ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #313 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aziel (8,796 babies since 1880), Azael (3,947 babies since 1880), Ayzal (638 babies since 1880) and Ayzel (385 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aizal, Asal and Asul 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aizal (176), Asal (169), Asul (5).
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 Azul 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 5 | #313 | — |
| Arizona | 10 | #639 | #464 |
| Texas | 39 | #763 | #635 |
| Colorado | 6 | #809 | — |
| California | 36 | #815 | #889 |
| Illinois | 9 | #942 | #1,678 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,197 | #1,078 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,567 | #2,135 |
| New York | 7 | #1,677 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 169 | #1,319 | 38 | #3,137 |
| 2024 | 181 | #1,281 | 46 | #2,795 |
| 2023 | 170 | #1,331 | 51 | #2,583 |
| 2022 | 187 | #1,279 | 37 | #3,220 |
| 2021 | 137 | #1,534 | 32 | #3,508 |
| 2020 | 109 | #1,810 | 23 | #4,291 |
| 2019 | 136 | #1,571 | 18 | #5,177 |
| 2018 | 114 | #1,789 | 20 | #4,759 |
| 2017 | 112 | #1,834 | 6 | #10,929 |
| 2016 | 114 | #1,816 | 14 | #6,079 |
| 2015 | 162 | #1,427 | 8 | #8,837 |
| 2014 | 162 | #1,410 | 8 | #8,872 |
| 2013 | 180 | #1,302 | 11 | #7,078 |
| 2012 | 227 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 2011 | 234 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 2010 | 326 | #822 | 9 | #8,211 |
| 2009 | 358 | #792 | — | — |
| 2008 | 497 | #615 | 9 | #8,384 |
| 2007 | 405 | #723 | — | — |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,084 | — | — |
| 2005 | 75 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,187 | 8 | #7,917 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,306 | — | — |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,327 | — | — |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,602 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,332 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,799 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,101 | — | — |
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).