In 2025, 154 US girls were named Aida, making it the 1,414th most common girls’ name of the year, down 172 places from #1,242 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 187 girls named Aida in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #668, reached in 1954. The most girls given the name in a single year was 243, in 2005. For comparison, it was #1,302 in 2015 and #855 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aida in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 6 babies. In all, 13,782 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,750 babies named Aida.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,820 US girls were named Aida; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 196. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,437 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aida ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #621 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ida (188,695 babies since 1880), Adelaida (3,177 babies since 1880), Ayda (1,535 babies since 1880) and Ada (107,183 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ghaida are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian, Polish and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.