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Arizona

#2,156 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly small spring

Arizona has been given to 3,695 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,156 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 153 recorded.

Babies named Arizona, 2025

1 in 38,500

Arizona over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arizona: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly small spring

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arizona means

Arizona may mean “small spring”, associated with ṣonak.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Uncertain. Possibly from O'odham alĭ ṣonak (literally “small spring”) (traditionally through the Spanish intermediary form Arizonac; compare modern Arizona), a name initially applied to an area around a silver-mining camp in Sonora. Alternatively, perhaps from Basque haritz ona (literally “good oak”), as the area had many Basque herders, and a descendant of them established the ranchería of Arizona (circa 1735) in Sonora. Suggestions of derivation from *arizuma, supposedly a Nahuatl word meaning “silver-bearing”, are considered implausible, and derivation from árida zona (literally “dry zone”) is considered a folk etymology.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Arizona (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Arizona is used in English.

Arizona comes through Basque haritz ona.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Arizona is pronounced /ˌæɹɪˈzoʊnə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,542 girls were recorded with the name Arizona between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 153 in 2020; its best national rank was #510 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,423 in 2020 to #2,156 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,153 in 2015 to #2,156 in 2025.

In the United States, 153 boys were recorded with the name Arizona between 1921 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1995; its best national rank was #4,228 in 1925.

How common is Arizona?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 38,500
86 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,156
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,721 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arizona sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,721 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arizona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arizonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arizona was born before 2005 — so the typical Arizona is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,301
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.8% of all recorded uses (915).

Is Arizona rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−332
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−733
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.98×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.2%
Peak was 2020 (153)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#510
1882

Spellings of Arizona

Arizona is not the most common spelling — Ariana is, with 49.1% against Arizona's 1.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Arizona is used

Across 2016–2025, Arizona was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 3,448 girls, against 1 in 16,491 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

129 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 3,448
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 4,545
  3. 3Indiana1 in 5,263
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 5,556
  5. 5Ohio1 in 7,692
  6. 6Missouri1 in 9,091
  7. 7Georgia1 in 14,286
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Arizona around the world

Where Arizona ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2018
    #809
    in 2018
  • France
    2011–2025
    #3,584
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Arizona

People whose public names include Arizona, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Arizona by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,156
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 733
Best rank ever
#510
1882
Peak year
2020
153 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,542
Count in 2025
86

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,228
1925
Peak year
1995
13 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
153
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arizona

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Arizona

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Arizona, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Arizona

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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