as a First Name
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. The shrub was named in the 18th century with the feminine form of Greek azaleos ‘dry’, because it flourishes in dry soil.
| 9,256th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 936
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 1,008
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Texas
- has the most people named Azalea per capita
- 2010
- marked the height of its popularity
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