girls:
6 births since 2021
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
1k births since 2008
#3579 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1k births since 2008
#6719 (13th percentile)
The name Azai is the #6,719 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,020 recorded births since 2008. This represents the 13.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,579 (21.9% percentile) for all time with 1,014 births since 2008. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2021.
Azai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2008 (2008 for boys and 2021 for girls).
The name Azai has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Azai reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 19.4% percentile (ranked #745) with 98 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 98 births per million (ranked 19.4% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Azai ranks #750 for boys (17.7% percentile) with 91 births per million, which is 92.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Azai reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #935) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Azai".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Azai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.3% confident that Azai is pronounced as uh-ZAI, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-ZAY, at 26.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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