Azul
#1,318 for girls in 2025, 169 births · #3,128 for boys in 2025, 38 births
Given to girls 93.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 497 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,547since 1995
Azul over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,318 | 169 | #3,128 | 38 |
| 2024 | #1,279 | 181 | #2,789 | 46 |
| 2023 | #1,330 | 170 | #2,575 | 51 |
| 2022 | #1,279 | 187 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2021 | #1,532 | 137 | #3,497 | 32 |
| 2020 | #1,808 | 109 | #4,275 | 23 |
| 2019 | #1,569 | 136 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #1,787 | 114 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #1,828 | 112 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #1,815 | 114 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #1,425 | 162 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #1,410 | 162 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #1,301 | 180 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #1,089 | 227 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,054 | 234 | — | |
| 2010 | #821 | 326 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #792 | 358 | — | |
| 2008 | #615 | 497 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #723 | 405 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,081 | 94 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,359 | 75 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,424 | 70 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,187 | 79 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #2,263 | 72 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,259 | 71 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,291 | 28 | — | |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 | — | |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | — | |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Azul! It came in at #7,041, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1998, when fewer than 17 girls a year got the name.
Where Azul is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Mexico#341 · 1 in 1,181
- Arizona#367 · 1 in 1,630
- Nevada#400 · 1 in 1,475
- Texas#566 · 1 in 2,827
- California#641 · 1 in 3,544
Best ever in a state: #150 in New Mexico, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Mexico | #341 | 6 | 1 in 1,181 |
| Arizona | #367 | 19 | 1 in 1,630 |
| Nevada | #400 | 7 | 1 in 1,475 |
| Texas | #566 | 56 | 1 in 2,827 |
| California | #641 | 59 | 1 in 3,544 |
| Oregon | #655 | 5 | 1 in 2,969 |
| Colorado | #696 | 7 | 1 in 3,200 |
| Illinois | #1,304 | 7 | 1 in 8,394 |
| Florida | #1,542 | 7 | 1 in 11,375 |
| New York | #1,962 | 6 | 1 in 15,379 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Azul
- 39 spots since 2024 (#1,279 → #1,318)
- 490 spots since 2020 (#1,808 → #1,318)
- 107 spots since 2015 (#1,425 → #1,318)
- Biggest jump: 1,358 spots in 2007 (#2,081 → #723)
- Biggest drop: 233 spots in 2011 (#821 → #1,054)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2008 at #615 (497 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2007–2010
- Highest: 1 in 3,805 girls born in 2008 were named Azul (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,510 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 38.9% of all girls named Azul (1,767) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 78 | #4,313 (1999) | #6,388 |
| 2000s | 1,749 | #615 (2008) | #1,999 |
| 2010s | 1,767 | #821 (2010) | #1,410 |
| 2020s | 953 | #1,279 (2022) | #1,424 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Azul in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 7,758 of them was named Azul, which outranked 94.4% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).