Azalea
Azalea is a girl name of Greek origin, meaning The azalea flower.
What Azalea means
The azalea flower.
Azalea sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room. Its 4 vowels give it a flowing rhythm.
Where Azalea comes from
Greek names often reach back to mythology, philosophy, or the early Church. They tend to be transparently meaningful in the original: many are compounds you can still take apart into their two halves.
Azalea is recorded as Greek in origin. Browse other Greek names.
How popular is Azalea?
Azalea sits outside the top 100 girl names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Azalea
Azalea spans flowers and growing things and the natural world, which is why it can read differently depending on which association you notice first. Both threads are worth following.
Names like Azalea
These share Azalea's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Acacia — Thorny tree; resurrection.
- Anthea — Flower; blossom.
- Daphne — The laurel tree.
- Iris — Rainbow; messenger of the gods.
- Alani — Orange tree.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Lily — The lily flower — purity and beauty.
- Rose — The rose flower.
- Sakura — Cherry blossom.
- Violet — The violet flower; the color purple.
- Blathnaid — Little flower; blossom.
More Greek names
- Atticus — From Attica; of Athens.
- Basil — Kingly; royal.
- Atlas — Enduring; the Titan who bears the sky.
- Berenice — Bringer of victory.
- Athena — Goddess of wisdom and war.
- Calix — Very handsome.
- Astra — Of the stars.
- Calla — Beautiful; the calla lily.
- Ariadne — Most holy and pure.
- Calliope — Beautiful voice; muse of poetry.