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Azula vs Azure

American parents have registered 2,127 Azures since 1880, against 721 Azulas. But in 2025 it was Azula that was commoner, 121 babies to 58.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Azula Azure

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 51 years in which either name was published, Azure for 45 years and Azula for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Azula Azure
Total US births 7212,127
Most in one year 125121
Babies in 2025 12158
Estimated living today 7202,100
Median age today 321
Peak year 20241975
Best rank 1,648th girls1,005th girls
Rank in 2025 1,692nd6,325th
First recorded 20101975
Girls / boys 721 / 01,675 / 452

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 Azures alive today are over 21; half the Azulas are over 3. That is 18 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.

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