Meaning not yet researched.
Aela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 61 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,694 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,694 in 2024; #2,778 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,778 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #2,694.
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Aela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 61 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,694 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 64 (2024).
In 2025, 61 US girls were named Aela, making it the 2,778th most common girls’ name of the year, down 84 places from #2,694 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 64 girls named Aela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,694, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 64. For comparison, it was #4,146 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aela in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 8 babies. In all, 708 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 349 babies named Aela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 510 US girls were named Aela; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,349 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aela ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #1,037 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ayla (38,040 babies since 1880), Aila (4,268 babies since 1880), Aylah (2,332 babies since 1880) and Alaa (1,989 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aela in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 5 | #1,037 | — |
| California | 5 | #3,112 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,778 | — | — |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,694 | — | — |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,126 | — | — |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,004 | — | — |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,223 | — | — |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,564 | — | — |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,220 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,158 | — | — |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,146 | — | — |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,181 | — | — |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,850 | — | — |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,711 | — | — |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,449 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,471 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,480 | — | — |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,618 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,966 | — | — |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,442 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).