Aela
#2,778 for girls in 2025, 61 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 64 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 708since 2006
Aela over time
Rank among girls' names. Aela has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,778 | 61 |
| 2024 | #2,694 | 64 |
| 2023 | #2,823 | 60 |
| 2022 | #3,123 | 52 |
| 2021 | #3,002 | 55 |
| 2020 | #2,850 | 57 |
| 2019 | #3,222 | 49 |
| 2018 | #3,559 | 43 |
| 2017 | #4,220 | 34 |
| 2016 | #4,157 | 35 |
| 2015 | #4,144 | 35 |
| 2014 | #4,178 | 35 |
| 2013 | #3,849 | 39 |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aela! It came in at #12,420, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2006–2010, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
Where Aela is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#1,417 · 1 in 9,978
Best ever in a state: #1,032 in Indiana, 2025.
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| Pennsylvania | #1,417 | 5 | 1 in 9,978 |
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See more about Aela
- 84 spots since 2024 (#2,694 → #2,778)
- 72 spots since 2020 (#2,850 → #2,778)
- 1,366 spots since 2015 (#4,144 → #2,778)
- Debuted 2006
- Peaked 2024 at #2,694 (64 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 25,315 girls born in 2024 were named Aela (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,349 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 49.3% of all girls named Aela (349) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 33 | #11,459 (2009) | #12,351 |
| 2010s | 326 | #3,222 (2019) | #4,992 |
| 2020s | 349 | #2,694 (2024) | #2,878 |
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.
Aela in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 34,252 of them was named Aela, which outranked 82.1% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,172Wynn50
- #3,172Xareni50
- #3,172Zamara50
- #3,222Aela49
- #3,222Adaliah49
- #3,222Aine49
- #3,222Alaynah49
- #3,272Aanvi48
- #3,272Abygail48
- #3,272Alona48
Tied with 49 names at #3,222; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.