In 2025, 35 US girls were named Aella, making it the 4,068th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,019 places from #3,049 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 53 girls named Aella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,906, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 104. For comparison, it was #6,242 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aella in 16 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 5 babies. In all, 626 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 381 babies named Aella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 559 US girls were named Aella; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 104. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ayla (38,040 babies since 1880), Aila (4,268 babies since 1880), Alaa (1,989 babies since 1880) and Ayala (1,201 babies since 1880).