Azai

What Azai means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Azai yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #809 vs #1,613 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Azai?

US: Rising: up from #6676 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #4747 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 307 boys got the name (#809 that year). First in the US records in 2008.

How common

• About 1 in 5,564 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 16,996 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NJ (0.58 per 1,000 boys), PA (0.46 per 1,000 boys), MD (0.39 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Azai is #809 in the US and #1613 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 96.5% of US babies named Azai were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Asa622 US · 83 E&W
• Isai186 US
• Esai107 US
• Asai71 US
• Ozzi10 US · 11 E&W
• Aza19 US
• Ezai17 US
• Azi12 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Azai

Boys

• Graham#120“gravel + homestead”^*
• Weston#55Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #120 in 2015, #55 in 2025
• Barrett#171Editor’s note 2,138 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Felix#175“happy, lucky”^*
• Levi#12Editor’s note Up from #42 in 2015 to #12 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 180 US boys in the 2025 records

For a sister

• Everleigh#194“wild boar + woodland clearing”^*
• June#150From the word “name”^*
• Aurelia#290“golden”^*
• Sloane#141Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #327 in 2015, #141 in 2025
• Ariella#174Form of Ariel, meaning “lion of God”^*
• Elsie#123Diminutive of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Azai’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.