Azelea
Girl · uh-ZAY-lee-uh · English
Azelea is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “azalea flower”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Azelea mean?
English: variant spelling of Azalea, the shrub named from Greek azaleos 'dry'
“azalea flower”
The azalea was given its name by Linnaeus, supposedly because it grows in dry soil.
- Say it
- uh-ZAY-lee-uh
Is Azelea a girl's or a boy's name?
Azelea is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Azelea in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #9,454among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Azelea, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Azelea in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 158 girls in the US were given Azelea or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,241, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.
Azelea in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
Names like Azelea
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Azalea Analeia Arabella Magnolia Amelia Alaia Avianna Cataleya Antonella Everly Ariella Aria
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