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Azucena

#3,652 in 2025Girls' name

Lily

Azucena has been given to 3,783 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #3,652 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 194 recorded.

Babies named Azucena, 2025

1 in 80,900

Azucena over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Azucena: meaning, origin, and history

Lily

Arabic

What Azucena means

Azucena means “lily”, associated with azucena.

Origin, language, and formation

Azucena is used in Spanish. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lily, Açucena and Susana.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Azucena is pronounced /aθuˈθena/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,783 girls were recorded with the name Azucena between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 194 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,090 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,403 in 2020 to #3,652 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,356 in 2015 to #3,652 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 Azucena?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 80,900
41 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 39,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,652
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
56,047 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Azucena 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Azucena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Azucenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Azucena was born before 2001 — so the typical Azucena is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,752
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (1,330).

Is Azucena 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
−185
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−249
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−296
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.1%
Peak was 2001 (194)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,090
2001

Spellings of Azucena

Azucena is the most-used spelling, taking 84.7% of the 4,468 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Azucena is used

Across 1910–2025, Azucena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 29,164 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 10,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 20,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 25,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

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. Azucena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Azucena around the world

Where Azucena 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.

  • France
    1941–2018
    #7,651
    in 2018

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Azucena

People whose public names include Azucena, 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.

Azucena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,652
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 249
Best rank ever
#1,090
2001
Peak year
2001
194 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,783
Count in 2025
41

Names similar to Azucena

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

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Names with a curve like Azucena

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

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Sibling names for Azucena

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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