Azara
Feminine · “scarlet”
Azara is a South American shrub named for a Spanish naturalist, and it is also read as an Arabic word for a scarlet flower — two routes, and no settled choice.
How old is the name Azara?
Azara first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Azara is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Azara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Azara most popular?
Azara peaked in 2025, reaching #1710 nationally. Today it ranks #1710, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Azara
Our story of Azara is a story of a sound several languages nearly own. A Spanish naturalist gave his surname to a genus of South American shrubs. Arabic has azhar, blossoms, from the root that gives Zahra. And American naming, by the 2010s, had an Az- front that would attach to almost anything. Azara appears in the registers in that decade with all three of those behind it and none of them documented as the source, which is an honest thing to state rather than smooth over.
Meaningscholars disagree
scarlet, red
Two routes. The botanical genus Azara was named for Félix de Azara, an eighteenth-century Spanish naturalist who worked in Paraguay. Separately, some sources give an Arabic azhar, 'flowers' or 'blossoms', or a reading as 'scarlet'. Neither is firmly documented as the source of the name.
Pronouncing Azara
uh-ZAR-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Spanish says ah-SAH-rah with an s at the front.
Nicknames for Azara
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2000
- Most girls named
- 2025119 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1710reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +19.0%119 in 2025, from 100
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Azara in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Azara in Spanish — same name
- Zahra in Arabic — related form
- Azara in English — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas.
Azaras among us
people named Azara are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 13,506 born in 2025 was named Azara
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Azara
- #1710
- Azara on the 2025 chart
- #786
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Azara went to 119 girls in 2025, but Azarah is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 174, which makes it the 786th most-given girls’ name of the year — 924 places above the chart.
- Azara119
- Azarah55
About 1 girl in 9,237 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 13,506 for Azara itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Vianca test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Azara's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Vianca climbed just as high around 1991, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Vianca's path sketches the road Azara is walking now.
Azara is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Azara is headed
Azara looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 43% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Azara beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Azara in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Zara is available as a short form with a substantial record of its own.
- Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- The botanical genus is real and named for a documented person.
- The origin is genuinely unsettled between two or three routes.
- Zara and Azra are close enough to cause confusion.
- It is very new as a given name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Azaras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Azara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Azara?
- Azara is the most-used spelling in US records — 119 of the 174 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Azarah.
- How popular is the name Azara in 2025?
- Azara ranks #1710 among US girl names in 2025, with 119 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Azara?
- About 1 in every 13,506 US girls born in 2025 was named Azara — 119 in all.
- Will my child share the name Azara with classmates?
- Azara will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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