Azucena
given name · Latin script
Meaning: lily
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Azucena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 23rd most common given name.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 3.2K
- ECEcuador1 in 3.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
lily
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Azucena counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #311 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 28 | Azucena | 63 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Azucena | 59 |
| US United States | — | 8,376 | 1 in 40K | 8.3K | Azucena | 275 |
| ES Spain | #373 | 7,856 | 1 in 6.4K | 8K | Azucena | 135 |
| EC Ecuador | #138 | 4,990 | 1 in 3.4K | 5K | Azucena | 37 |
| NI Nicaragua | #23 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Azucena | 22 |
| SV El Salvador | #181 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Azucena | 32 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 634 | 1 in 5.3K | 634 | — | 21 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)
Azucena is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Del árabe açuçena; alude a la blancura y pureza del lirio.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Spanish: from the vocabulary word azucena madonna lily (from Arabic as-susana the lily; cf. SUSANNA ). The word seems to have been adopted as a given name because of the association of the flower with the Virgin Mary.
as a word
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)
- Azucena Maizanib. 1902ARArgentinian singer (1902-1970)
- Azucena Villaflorb. 1924ARArgentine activist (1924-1977)
- Azucena Martín-Dorado Calvob. 1955ESSpanish singer (1955-2005)
- Azucena Hernándezb. 1960ESSpanish actress
- Azucena Arbelecheb. 1970UYUruguayan economist, professor, and civil servant
- Denisse Mirallesb. 1976PEnot in their usual namePeruvian economist
- Azucena Sanchez Benitob. 1978EScyclist
- Azucena Díazb. 1982ESSpanish long distance runner
- Azucena De La Fuenteactress
- Víctor Manuel Gómez GómezESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.3K | #2,780 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8K | #319 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.9K | #644 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 5K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 5K | #356 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 634 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 628 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 194 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 170 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 151 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 150 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 134 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 does the name Azucena mean, and where does it come from?
- lily Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Azucena a male or female name?
- Azucena 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.
- In which country does Azucena have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Azucena in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled azucena.
- How common is the name Azucena?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,376 people named Azucena in 2020, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
- How common is Azucena compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Azucena is the 311th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/azucenaThe 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, “Azucena” — the 311th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.