girls:
1.1k births since 1976
#4566 (20th percentile)
boys:
94 births since 2005
#4492 (2nd percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1976
#6497 (16th percentile)
The name Azra is the #6,497 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,244 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 16.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,566 (20.1% percentile) for all time with 1,150 births since 1976. For boys, it ranks #4,492 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 94 births since 2005.
Azra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for girls and 2005 for boys). Birth data for Azra is available in 40 out of the 48 years between 1976 and 2023 (40 years for girls and 10 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 Azra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 81.3% of babies named Azra were girls.
For girls, Azra reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 6.4% percentile (ranked #876) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 36 births per million (ranked 6.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1994, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Azra is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #891 (5.9% percentile) with 35 births per million.
For boys, Azra reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #911) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Azra ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 79.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Azra".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Azra. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.2% confident that Azra is pronounced as AZ-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHZ-ruh, at 20.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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