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Azula vs Azura

American parents have registered 1,011 Azuras since 1880, against 721 Azulas. But in 2025 it was Azula that was commoner, 121 babies to 119.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Azula against Azura, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Azula Azura

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 31 years in which either name was published, Azura for 25 years and Azula for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Azula Azura
Total US births 7211,011
Most in one year 125119
Babies in 2025 121119
Estimated living today 7201,000
Median age today 35
Peak year 20242025
Best rank 1,648th girls1,710th girls
Rank in 2025 1,692nd1,710th
First recorded 20101975
Girls / boys 721 / 01,011 / 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 Azuras alive today are over 5; half the Azulas are over 3. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Azula Azura
England and Wales 896

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Azula and Azura.