Azucena vs Azula
American parents have registered 3,783 Azucenas since 1880, against 721 Azulas. But in 2025 it was Azula that was commoner, 121 babies to 41.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Azucena Azula
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 73 years in which either name was published, Azucena for 67 years and Azula for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Azucena | Azula | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,783 | 721 |
| Most in one year | 194 | 125 |
| Babies in 2025 | 41 | 121 |
| Estimated living today | 3,700 | 720 |
| Median age today | 24 | 3 |
| Peak year | 2001 | 2024 |
| Best rank | 1,090th girls | 1,648th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,645th | 1,692nd |
| First recorded | 1917 | 2010 |
| Girls / boys | 3,783 / 0 | 721 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Azucenas alive today are over 24; half the Azulas are over 3. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Azucena California (6.2×), Texas (3.1×), Arizona (2.3×)
- Azula Arizona (8.0×), California (3.5×), Texas (2.9×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Azucena and Azula.