Arizona

#2,153 for girls in 2025, 86 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #8,987
Given to girls 95.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
1882 · 13 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,542
since 1880

Arizona over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Arizona has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201890peak #507, 1882girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,15386
2024#1,823110#8,9878
2023#1,669124
2022#1,818112#8,3009
2021#1,801112#8,1669
2020#1,422153#12,0225
2019#1,655127#12,1455
2018#1,554139#12,1565
2017#1,842111
2016#1,775117
2015#2,15288
2014#1,982100
2013#2,62667#9,6557
2012#2,67966
2011#3,13253
2010#3,40947
2009#4,26935
2008#4,88230
2007#4,80830
2006#4,07336
2005#4,02935
2004#4,09334
2003#3,53240#10,8945
2002#3,39440#8,4567
2001#3,00947#6,44510
2000#3,02046#6,31610
1999#3,18840#7,1398
1998#2,57053#5,84010
1997#3,30235#4,96012
1996#2,76044#4,87812
1995#3,35733#4,50813
1994#3,79028#6,3728
1993#8,7199
1992#8,06510
1991#9,3368
1990#9,2478
1989
1988#10,3866
1987
1986#10,9125
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1977#9,6525
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1960#5,1687
1959#5,0317
1958
1957#5,3776
1956
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1951#4,3857
1950#5,3015
1949
1948#4,6516
1947#4,0078
1946#3,21710
1945
1944#3,6877
1943#4,6915
1942#3,4448
1941#2,39713
1940#2,42412
1939#2,59211
1938#4,3425
1937#1,91417
1936#2,15314
1935#2,20614
1934#1,77119
1933#1,97016
1932#1,75420
1931#1,87618
1930#1,81520
1929#1,52626
1928#2,09417
1927#1,42332
1926#1,44931
1925#1,60927#4,1975
1924#1,61228
1923#1,19742
1922#1,46431
1921#1,29836#4,3225
1920#1,47030
1919#1,21638
1918#1,60025
1917#1,14939
1916#1,16737
1915#1,33928
1914#1,11929
1913#1,04027
1912#1,17820
1911#93222
1910#1,33512
1909#1,10414
1908#91219
1907#94516
1906#79321
1905#71325
1904#77321
1903#64027
1902#81818
1901#88114
1900#1,10612
1899#75618
1898#75020
1897#73518
1896#75418
1895#78816
1894#74416
1893#86512
1892#72616
1891#66916
1890#9409
1889#75712
1888#63616
1887#8608
1886#8288
1885#69510
1884
1883#51714
1882#50713
1881#7406
1880#6288
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Arizona was already there! It came in at #628, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1884, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

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Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 330 spots since 2024 (#1,823#2,153)
  • 731 spots since 2020 (#1,422#2,153)
  • 1 spot since 2015 (#2,152#2,153)
  • Biggest jump: 403 spots in 1911 (#1,335#932)
  • Biggest drop: 350 spots in 1900 (#756#1,106)
Rise & fade · girls
2 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1882 at #507 (13 births)
  • Births halved by 1884, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 28 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1885–1899
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,023
  • Highest: 1 in 8,023 girls born in 1883 were named Arizona (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 18,689 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #507 in 1882, was only 1 in 8,296 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 25.8% of all girls named Arizona (915) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s95#507 (1882)#685
1890s159#669 (1891)#773
1900s187#640 (1903)#869
1910s277#932 (1911)#1,208
1920s300#1,197 (1923)#1,514
1930s154#1,754 (1932)#2,239
1940s69#2,397 (1941)#3,565
1950s25#4,385 (1951)#5,024
1960s7#5,168 (1960)#5,168
1970s5#9,652 (1977)#9,652
1980s11#10,386 (1988)#10,649
1990s268#2,570 (1998)#5,433
2000s373#3,009 (2001)#3,911
2010s915#1,554 (2018)#2,281
2020s697#1,422 (2020)#1,781

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Arizona in 1890

girls
#940
9 births · 1 in 21,153 girls

Top girls' names in 1890

  1. #1Mary12,078
  2. #2Anna5,233
  3. #3Elizabeth3,112
  4. #4Margaret3,100
  5. #5Emma2,980
  6. #6Florence2,744
  7. #7Ethel2,718
  8. #8Minnie2,650
  9. #9Clara2,496
  10. #10Bertha2,388
  11. #940Arizona9
More about 1890

girls

190,377 girls got a published name in 1890; 1 in 21,153 of them was named Arizona, which outranked 38.7% of the 1,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arizona
  1. #872Vassie10
  2. #872Vonnie10
  3. #872Wilhelmine10
  4. #940Arizona9
  5. #940Abigail9
  6. #940Aida9
  7. #940Albertha9
  8. #1,006Altie8
  9. #1,006Annis8
  10. #1,006Arbie8

Tied with 65 names at #940; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1889
Risers
  1. 612Electa#1,279#667
  2. 586Lular#1,279#693
  3. 548Alvena#1,147#599
  4. 521Prudie#1,279#758
  5. 505Tempie#1,147#642
Fallers
  1. 581Lella#757#1,338
  2. 581Vira#757#1,338
  3. 553Buena#657#1,210
  4. 536Roxana#802#1,338
  5. 499Fleda#839#1,338

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1890