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Azalia vs Azara

American parents have registered 2,328 Azalias since 1880, against 790 Azaras. But in 2025 it was Azara that was commoner, 119 babies to 78.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Azalia against Azara, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Azalia Azara

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 100 years in which either name was published, Azalia for 95 years and Azara for 5 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Azalia Azara
Total US births 2,328790
Most in one year 95119
Babies in 2025 78119
Estimated living today 2,100790
Median age today 154
Peak year 20242025
Best rank 2,040th girls1,710th girls
Rank in 2025 2,326th1,710th
First recorded 18982000
Girls / boys 2,328 / 0790 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Azalias alive today are over 15; half the Azaras are over 4. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Azalia Azara
England and Wales 7053

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Azalia and Azara.