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 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kansas#575 · 1 in 2,316
- Arizona#680 · 1 in 3,082
- California#812 · 1 in 4,475
- Texas#974 · 1 in 5,361
- Michigan#1,241 · 1 in 7,667
Best ever in a state: #150 in New Mexico, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kansas | #575 | 5 | 1 in 2,316 |
| Arizona | #680 | 9 | 1 in 3,082 |
| California | #812 | 39 | 1 in 4,475 |
| Texas | #974 | 29 | 1 in 5,361 |
| Michigan | #1,241 | 5 | 1 in 7,667 |
| Florida | #1,463 | 8 | 1 in 10,450 |
| Illinois | #1,507 | 5 | 1 in 9,680 |
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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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 11,977 of them was named Azul, which outranked 91.3% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,524Ines138
- #1,524Liza138
- #1,524Maple138
- #1,532Azul137
- #1,532Agatha137
- #1,532Ashton137
- #1,532Eliyanah137
- #1,544Cattleya136
- #1,544Hollyn136
- #1,544Jalani136
Tied with 11 names at #1,532; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 54,671 of them was named Azul, which outranked 75.2% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,427Yaqub33
- #3,427Zedekiah33
- #3,427Zuri33
- #3,497Azul32
- #3,497Aasim32
- #3,497Akim32
- #3,497Akio32
- #3,582Abdias31
- #3,582Able31
- #3,582Akhil31
Tied with 84 names at #3,497; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.