Azalea
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A plant of the obsolete genus Azalea
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əzeɪliə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Azalea is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- MXMexico
- MYMalaysia
- PHPhilippines
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Modern coinage from the name of the flowering shrub, one of the most recent of the names taken from terms denoting flora from the 19th century onwards.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Azalea is read(measured from records)
Azalea is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English44%
A plant of the obsolete genus Azalea.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Noble cheer; also a flower name
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Spanish41%
Latín botánico azalea, del griego azaleos, 'seco, árido, sin agua'; usado por la flor.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Indonesian6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Azalea in Indonesian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Azalea, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Azalea is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Modern coinage from the name of the flowering shrub, one of the most recent of the names taken from terms denoting flora from the 19th century onwards.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Cheer Also Flower
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
the azaleas, numerous varieties of flowering shrubs of temperate climates
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Azalea Sinclairb. 1930NZNew Zealand netball player
- Ta'Shanb. 1992CHnot in their usual nameSwiss musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Azalea?
- In the etymology graph, Azaliya is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Azalea?
- A machine transcription gives /əzeɪliə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Azalea a male or female name?
- Azalea is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Azalea mean?
- In English, A plant of the obsolete genus Azalea.
- Where does the name Azalea come from?
- Modern coinage from the name of the flowering shrub, one of the most recent of the names taken from terms denoting flora from the 19th century onwards. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Azalea have the most bearers?
- Azalea is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/azaleaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Azalea”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.