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Azalea

#278 in 2025Girls' name

Azalea flower

Azalea has been given to 11,739 babies in the U.S. since 1902. In 2025 it ranked #278 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 1,109 recorded.

Babies named Azalea, 2025

1 in 2,990

Azalea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Azalea: meaning, origin, and history

Azalea flower

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Azalea means

Azalea means “Azalea flower”.

The naming story behind Azalea

Azalea takes its direct reference from flowering shrubs of the genus Rhododendron. Its botanical word history reaches Greek azaleos, meaning dry. Azaliya is a recorded Russian counterpart.

Origin, language, and formation

Azalea is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,739 girls were recorded with the name Azalea between 1902 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,109 in 2025; its best national rank was #278 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #483 in 2020 to #278 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #580 in 2015 to #278 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Azalea?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 2,990
1,109 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 1,450
0.07% of girls
Rank, 2025
#278
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,073 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Azalea 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 1003%
School of 50015%

Put another way: gather 2,073 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Azalea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Azaleas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Azalea was born before 2018 — so the typical Azalea is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
42.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,348
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (4,992).

Is Azalea 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
+79
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+205
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+302
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.12×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (1,109)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#278
2025

Spellings of Azalea

Azalea is not the most common spelling — Amalia is, with 19.0% against Azalea's 13.5%.

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 Azalea is used

Across 2016–2025, Azalea was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 578 girls, against 1 in 1,935 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 6,667).

15173 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 578
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 581
  3. 3Wyoming1 in 847
  4. 4Oregon1 in 901
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 1,087
  6. 6Nevada1 in 1,136
  7. 7Arizona1 in 1,163
  8. 8Alaska1 in 1,205

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.

Geographically, Azalea is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 55% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Azalea around the world

Where Azalea 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
    2009–2025
    #596
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2022–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    2014–2025
    #4,636
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #430
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1996–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Azalea in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Azalea. Linked forms have their own page here.

AselaAzealiaAzalaïs

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Azalea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#278
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 205
Best rank ever
#278
2025
Peak year
2025
1,109 that year
First recorded
1902
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,739
Count in 2025
1,109

Names similar to Azalea

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

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Names with a curve like Azalea

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

EmoryAlayahAlayaJulietaEsmeWynterEliannaCharliCataleyaLilithKatalinaMaisie

Sibling names for Azalea

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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