How Many People Are Named Azure?

2,086

people named Azure are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 163,847 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,127 babies named Azure in Social Security records from 1975 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#6,560

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Gender-Neutral Names

#455

See the top 100

Peak Year

1975

121 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Rare)
Pronunciation: A-zhər
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

From the English word that means "sky blue". It is ultimately (via Old French, Latin and Arabic) from Persian لاجورد (lajvard) meaning "azure, lapis lazuli".

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
78.5%
Male
21.5%

Of the babies given the name Azure, 78.5% were girls and 21.5% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Azure fell from 100% in the 1970s to 40.7% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Azure alive today is about 24 years old, and 67% are under 30. Half of them were between 10 and 37 in 2025.

Under 30 1,393
66.8%
30 to 59 693
33.2%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Azure first appears in the records in 1975 and was given most often in 1975, to 121 babies. In 2025, 58 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1975 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Azure has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,005, in 1975. In 2025 it ranked #6,359. Among boys, its best rank was #3,041, in 2025.

GirlsBoys
Rank in 2025#6,359#3,041
Best rank#1,005 (1975)#3,041 (2025)
Years in the top 100NoneNone
Rank in its biggest decade#3,696 in the 2000s#3,761 in the 2020s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Azure alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Azure were born in California than in any other state: about 104 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Azure was given about 3.8 times as often in California.

California 104
Texas 45
Utah 11
Indiana 11
Pennsylvania 10
Virginia 6
Illinois 6
New York 6
Ohio 5
Iowa 5
Hawaii 5
Wisconsin 5

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