Azalea Girl
How popular is Azalea?
#278 girl name in 2025
1,109 baby girls were named Azalea in the US in 2025, making it the 278th most popular girl name.
Azalea popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #278 for girls (▲ 79 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,109 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+112% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #580 in 2015, #483 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2025 (1,109 girls) |
| Highest rank | #278 in 2025 |
| First recorded | 1902 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.8% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Azalea counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Azalea family of names ranked #281 for girls in 2025 (#344 the year before), with 1,176 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Azalea | 1,109 | 94% |
| Azaleah | 46 | 4% |
| Azaylea | 11 | 1% |
| Azelea | 10 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Azalea is most popular
Babies named Azalea per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Wyoming: 2.6 per 1,000 (11 girls)
- Hawaii: 2.2 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- New Mexico: 1.9 per 1,000 (46 girls)
- Alaska: 1.9 per 1,000 (16 girls)
- Oregon: 1.4 per 1,000 (93 girls)
Azalea by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 59 | #1,154 |
| 1910s | 118 | #1,670 |
| 1920s | 127 | #1,708 |
| 1930s | 55 | #2,924 |
| 1940s | 32 | #3,039 |
| 1950s | 81 | #2,515 |
| 1960s | 43 | #4,262 |
| 1970s | 135 | #3,426 |
| 1980s | 162 | #3,738 |
| 1990s | 384 | #2,357 |
| 2000s | 1,094 | #1,513 |
| 2010s | 4,457 | #509 |
| 2020s | 4,992 | #278 |
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Questions
- Is Azalea a boy or girl name?
- Azalea is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Azalea were girls.
- How popular is the name Azalea?
- 1,109 baby girls were named Azalea in the US in 2025, making it the 278th most popular girl name.
- When was Azalea most popular?
- Azalea peaked in 2025, when 1,109 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #278 in 2025.
- How many people are named Azalea?
- 11,739 babies have been named Azalea in the US since 1880. We estimate about 11,305 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 8.
- Where is Azalea most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Azalea was most common in Wyoming, at 2.6 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.