Azani
#3,912 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Azani has been given to 274 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #3,912 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 39 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% girls, 16% boys all-time.
Babies named Azani, 2025
1 in 89,600
Azani over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Azani over time
In 2025, Azani went to 79% girls and 21% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Azani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 89,600
- 37 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 43,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,912
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 62,106 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Azani sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Azani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Azanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Azani was born before 2022 — so the typical Azani is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 63.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 230
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 63.0% of all recorded uses (145).
Is Azani 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
- −84
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +7,327
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +12,914
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 7.40×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 94.9%
- Peak was 2024 (39)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 48.2% average annual change
Spellings of Azani
Azani is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 19.8% against Azani's 0.07%.
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 Azani is used
Across 1910–2025, Azani was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,387,225 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
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. Azani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Azani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Azani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Azani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.