Aquila
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to girls 84.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 29 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 760since 1955
Aquila over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | — | |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #5,338 | 17 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | — | #12,246 | 5 | |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | — | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | — | |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | — | |
| 2011 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | — | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | — | |
| 2008 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | — | |
| 2006 | — | #9,585 | 7 | |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | — | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | — | |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 | — | |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 | — | |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #4,376 | 23 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,998 | 19 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,419 | 32 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,301 | 33 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,074 | 15 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,419 | 25 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,851 | 31 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,286 | 17 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,344 | 25 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #4,517 | 16 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,079 | 17 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #2,780 | 29 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,313 | 20 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,714 | 16 | — | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | — | |
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| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1955
The first year at least five girls were named Aquila! It came in at #5,208, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1959, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 1,047 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #13,208)
- 3,662 spots since 2020 (#9,546 → #13,208)
- 3,060 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #13,208)
Rise & fade · girls
22 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 1977 at #2,780 (29 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 52,867
- Highest: 1 in 52,867 girls born in 1977 were named Aquila (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
- 28.4% of all girls named Aquila (216) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 6 | #5,208 (1955) | #5,208 |
| 1960s | 12 | #5,168 (1960) | #5,868 |
| 1970s | 143 | #2,780 (1977) | #4,456 |
| 1980s | 194 | #2,851 (1984) | #4,302 |
| 1990s | 216 | #3,301 (1991) | #4,936 |
| 2000s | 69 | #8,534 (2000) | #11,952 |
| 2010s | 71 | #6,176 (2019) | #12,363 |
| 2020s | 49 | #9,056 (2022) | #11,224 |
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.
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