girls:
3.3k births since 1880
#2995 (48th percentile)
boys:
145 births since 1921
#4441 (3rd percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1880
#4632 (40th percentile)
The name Arizona is the #4,632 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,488 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 40.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,995 (47.6% percentile) for all time with 3,343 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,441 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 145 births since 1921.
Arizona has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1921 for boys). Birth data for Arizona is available in 109 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (109 years for girls and 18 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Arizona has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Arizona reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 15.7% percentile (ranked #793) with 86 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 117 births per million (ranked 4.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Arizona ranks #829 for girls (12.5% percentile) with 70 births per million, which is 60.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Arizona reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #792) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 6 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arizona".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Arizona. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.1% confident that Arizona is pronounced as a-rih-ZOH-nuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-rih-ZOH-nuh, at 20.6% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AE2 R IH0 Z OW1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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