Azka
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AZ-ka
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,690 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Azka is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “purest”. In 2025 it ranked 1,690th for girls in the UK (18 babies) and 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Azka mean?
Arabic: elative of zaki, 'pure'
“purest”
From the same Arabic root as zakat, the purifying charity of Islam.
Is Azka a girl's or a boy's name?
Azka is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the UK and 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Azka in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,690th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 15,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popular new in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the UK were named Azka, making it the 1,690th most popular name for girls.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Azka of any year since the records began in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Azka in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,639th in England and Wales.
Azka in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #1,690 |
| 2024 | 16 | #1,881 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,841 |
| 2022 | 8 | #3,050 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 8 | #3,102 |
| 2016 | 11 | #2,510 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,741 |
| 2009 | 11 | #2,298 |
| 2008 | 11 | #2,286 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 8 | #2,657 |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 1 | #5,353 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 4 | #3,289 |
How popular is Azka in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Azka, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2022, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Azka in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Azka in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
Names like Azka
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Ayra, Hafsa, Abeeha, Aqsa, Amira, Arwa, Minha, Yusra, Hiba, Ayah, Aiza
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Azka: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/azka, updated 20 October 2026.