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Azura

#1,713 in 2025Girls' name

Elaboration of Azure

Azura has been given to 1,011 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #1,713 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 119 recorded.

Babies named Azura, 2025

1 in 27,900

Azura over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Azura: meaning, origin, and history

Elaboration of Azure

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Azura means

Azura is a elaboration of Azure.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Azura is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ə.ˈʒʊɹ.ə/ and /ˈæʒ.ɹə/ for Azura.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Azura → Azure. The family’s meaning is “sky blue”, recorded in the naming reference for Azure.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Azure.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,011 girls were recorded with the name Azura between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,713 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,661 in 2020 to #1,713 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,745 in 2015 to #1,713 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.

How common is Azura?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,900
119 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,713
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,311 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Azura 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,311 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Azura. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Azuras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Azura was born before 2020 — so the typical Azura is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,011
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.9% of all recorded uses (515).

Is Azura 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
+128
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+948
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,032
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (119)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,713
2025

Spellings of Azura

Azura is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 73.8% against Azura's 0.09%.

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 Azura is used

Across 2016–2025, Azura was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 30,923 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 7,143
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 16,667
  3. 3Florida1 in 25,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 25,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 33,333
  6. 6New York1 in 33,333
  7. 7California1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 50,000

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.

Azura around the world

Where Azura 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
    2000–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    2017–2025
    #6,414
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Azura by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,713
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 948
Best rank ever
#1,713
2025
Peak year
2025
119 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,011
Count in 2025
119

Names similar to Azura

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

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Sibling names for Azura

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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