# Azalea (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/azalea/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,739 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 11,739 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 503, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 204 | 1,184 |
| 2012 | 296 | 893 |
| 2013 | 446 | 628 |
| 2014 | 584 | 531 |
| 2015 | 524 | 580 |
| 2016 | 524 | 586 |
| 2017 | 523 | 576 |
| 2018 | 610 | 509 |
| 2019 | 581 | 528 |
| 2020 | 634 | 483 |
| 2021 | 753 | 419 |
| 2022 | 783 | 401 |
| 2023 | 841 | 365 |
| 2024 | 872 | 357 |
| 2025 | 1,109 | 278 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 4,049 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3,285 |
| 2013 | 19 | 1,587 |
| 2014 | 30 | 1,155 |
| 2015 | 25 | 1,324 |
| 2016 | 21 | 1,525 |
| 2017 | 24 | 1,371 |
| 2018 | 30 | 1,136 |
| 2019 | 27 | 1,218 |
| 2020 | 34 | 992 |
| 2021 | 44 | 812 |
| 2022 | 53 | 694 |
| 2023 | 54 | 671 |
| 2024 | 62 | 625 |
| 2025 | 65 | 596 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.