Meaning not yet researched.
Aerial: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,270 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,270 in 1991; #11,963 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aerial in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,963 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #1,270.
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Aerial: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,270 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 132 (1991).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Aerial, making it the 11,963rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,009 places from #8,954 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 11 girls named Aerial in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,270, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 132. For comparison, it was #4,072 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aerial in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 6 babies. In all, 2,007 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 877 babies named Aerial.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 155 US girls were named Aerial; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ariel (100,665 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aireal, Aeryal and Aaral are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aireal (252), Aeryal (24), Aaral (11).
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 Aerial in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,963 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,954 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,222 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,555 | — | — |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,751 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,934 | — | — |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,421 | — | — |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,892 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,813 | — | — |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,408 | — | — |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,072 | — | — |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,273 | — | — |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,004 | — | — |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,387 | — | — |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,211 | — | — |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,737 | — | — |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,681 | — | — |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,939 | — | — |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,132 | — | — |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,177 | — | — |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,404 | — | — |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,900 | — | — |
| 2003 | 50 | #2,999 | — | — |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,889 | — | — |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,740 | — | — |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,480 | — | — |
| 1999 | 73 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,940 | — | — |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1996 | 89 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1995 | 82 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 1992 | 99 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 1991 | 132 | #1,270 | 6 | #7,285 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,169 | — | — |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,904 | — | — |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,084 | — | — |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,732 | — | — |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,976 | — | — |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,017 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,120 | — | — |
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).