Aoife
#2,117 for girls in 2025, 88 births
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 117 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,181since 1985
Aoife over time
Rank among girls' names. Aoife has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #2,117 | 88 |
| 2024 | #2,231 | 84 |
| 2023 | #2,124 | 90 |
| 2022 | #1,782 | 115 |
| 2021 | #1,861 | 107 |
| 2020 | #1,818 | 108 |
| 2019 | #1,986 | 97 |
| 2018 | #1,748 | 117 |
| 2017 | #1,876 | 108 |
| 2016 | #1,929 | 104 |
| 2015 | #2,012 | 98 |
| 2014 | #2,412 | 75 |
| 2013 | #2,726 | 63 |
| 2012 | #2,495 | 73 |
| 2011 | #2,725 | 64 |
| 2010 | #2,781 | 63 |
| 2009 | #2,643 | 69 |
| 2008 | #2,690 | 68 |
| 2007 | #2,992 | 59 |
| 2006 | #3,224 | 51 |
| 2005 | #2,935 | 55 |
| 2004 | #3,265 | 46 |
| 2003 | #3,131 | 47 |
| 2002 | #3,196 | 44 |
| 2001 | #3,864 | 33 |
| 2000 | #3,983 | 31 |
| 1999 | #4,576 | 24 |
| 1998 | #3,914 | 29 |
| 1997 | #3,448 | 33 |
| 1996 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 |
| 1994 | #4,238 | 24 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aoife! It came in at #9,307, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986–1988, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Aoife is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#591 · 1 in 2,919
- North Carolina#1,270 · 1 in 7,404
- New York#1,318 · 1 in 7,775
- Florida#2,153 · 1 in 17,015
- California#2,821 · 1 in 27,483
Best ever in a state: #425 in Massachusetts, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #591 | 8 | 1 in 2,919 |
| North Carolina | #1,270 | 6 | 1 in 7,404 |
| New York | #1,318 | 10 | 1 in 7,775 |
| Florida | #2,153 | 5 | 1 in 17,015 |
| California | #2,821 | 6 | 1 in 27,483 |
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See more about Aoife
- 114 spots since 2024 (#2,231 → #2,117)
- 299 spots since 2020 (#1,818 → #2,117)
- 105 spots since 2015 (#2,012 → #2,117)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2018 at #1,748 (117 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,262 girls born in 2022 were named Aoife (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,264 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,748 in 2018, was only 1 in 14,539 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 39.5% of all girls named Aoife (862) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 23 | #9,307 (1985) | #10,528 |
| 1990s | 201 | #3,448 (1997) | #5,571 |
| 2000s | 503 | #2,643 (2009) | #3,192 |
| 2010s | 862 | #1,748 (2018) | #2,269 |
| 2020s | 592 | #1,782 (2022) | #1,989 |
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.
Aoife in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
More about 2023
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1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 17,829 of them was named Aoife, which outranked 87.9% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,107Riyah91
- #2,107Sianna91
- #2,107Vivianne91
- #2,124Aoife90
- #2,124Abbie90
- #2,124Adaya90
- #2,124Avalee90
- #2,142Anisa89
- #2,142Bayleigh89
- #2,142Caia89
Tied with 17 names at #2,124; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.