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Aela

Aela reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 2,694, and has been recorded 708 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,778th. About 700 Aelas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Aela

By the numbers

Total US births
708
Estimated living today
700
Median age today
6
Peak year
2024
Best rank
2,694th
Rank in 2025
2,778th
First recorded
2006

How old the living Aelas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 708 babies given the name since 2006, about 700 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 690 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Aela is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Aela is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (3.9×), California (2.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular girls’ names the year Aela peaked:

All the names of 2024

Aela elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Aela +2 spellings 1,230 672nd
England and Wales girls Aela 164 1,541st
Switzerland girls Aela 105 526th
Ireland girls Aela 88 510th
Scotland girls Aela 73 361st
Northern Ireland girls Aela 9 296th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Aela: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Aela 68 0.005% 468th
French girls Switzerland Aela 37 0.009% 298th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Related names

Aela against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.