Aela Girl
How popular is Aela?
#2,778 girl name in 2025
61 baby girls were named Aela in the US in 2025, making it the 2778th most popular girl name.
Aela popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #2,778 for girls (▼ 84 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 61 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+74% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #4,143 in 2015, #2,850 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2024 (64 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,694 in 2024 |
| First recorded | 2006 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Aela counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Aella family of names ranked #1,593 for girls in 2025 (#1,417 the year before), with 96 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Aella | 35 | 36% |
| Aela | 61 | 64% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Aela is most popular
Babies named Aela per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Arizona: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Indiana: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (17 girls)
- Florida: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
Aela by decade
Girl names about as popular as Aela
Questions
- Is Aela a boy or girl name?
- Aela is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Aela were girls.
- How popular is the name Aela?
- 61 baby girls were named Aela in the US in 2025, making it the 2778th most popular girl name.
- When was Aela most popular?
- Aela peaked in 2024, when 64 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,694 in 2024.
- How many people are named Aela?
- 708 babies have been named Aela in the US since 1880. We estimate about 705 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 7.
- Where is Aela most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Aela was most common in Arizona, at 0.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.