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Azure

#6,359 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Sky blue

Azure has been given to 2,127 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #6,359 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 121 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% girls, 21% boys all-time.

Babies named Azure, 2025

1 in 184,000

Azure over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Azure over time

In 2025, Azure went to 31% girls and 69% boys.

19752025

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.

Azure: meaning, origin, and history

Sky blue

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Azure means

Azure means “sky blue”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,675 girls were recorded with the name Azure between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 121 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,005 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,373 in 2020 to #6,359 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,155 in 2015 to #6,359 in 2025.

In the United States, 452 boys were recorded with the name Azure between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,041 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,712 in 2020 to #3,041 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,535 in 2015 to #3,041 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 Azure?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,359
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Azure 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Azure. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Azures were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Azure was born before 1999 — so the typical Azure is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,675
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2000s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (398).

Is Azure 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
−1,577
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,014
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,204
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.51×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.9%
Peak was 1975 (121)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,005
1975

Spellings of Azure

Azure is not the most common spelling — Zuri is, with 34.1% against Azure's 3.4%.

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 Azure is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Azure was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 375,088 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 100,000
  3. 3Utah1 in 100,000
  4. 4Iowa1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Indiana1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Azure has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Azure is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Azure was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,217,072 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Azure has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Azure around the world

Where Azure 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
    1996–2021
    #6,293
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1977–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Azure by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,359
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,014
Best rank ever
#1,005
1975
Peak year
1975
121 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,675
Count in 2025
18

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,041
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,671
Best rank ever
#3,041
2025
Peak year
2025
40 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
452
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Azure

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

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Sibling names for Azure

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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