Girl Names That Start With A
Girls' names beginning with A, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of girls, 2025
- 16.5%
- vs 14.9% in 2000
- Names in use
- 2,658
- 8,443 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 2015
- at 18.5% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #1
- by 2025 share
How A has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with A, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,521#107 | Down 39 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 1,829#164 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 1,200#257 | Down 42 rank positions in five years | 1975 | |||
| 3,547#65 | Up 11 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 1,317#235 | Down 86 rank positions in five years | 1981 | |||
| 4,941#41 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 1,690#182 | Up 107 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| 7,732#11 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 2,564#103 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 2,919#86 | Down 26 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 12,699#4 | Up 2 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 1,314#237 | Down 99 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 5,267#37 | Down 18 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 2,971#84 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 2,805#88 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 2,003#146 | Down 90 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 2,219#128 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 1,276#245 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 2,607#101 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 1,401#219 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 1,323#234 | Down 110 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 7,065#15 | Up 21 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 6,130#26 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 3,864#59 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 2,085#140 | Up 66 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 1,832#163 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 2,477#109 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,366#224 | Down 27 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 1,188#263 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 2,204#130 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,723#180 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 3,149#77 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,683#184 | Down 68 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 1,192#260 | Down 119 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 1,858#158 | Down 45 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 2,630#98 | Up 44 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,423#213 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 2,168#132 | Up 151 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,179#266 | Down 42 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,756#174 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 1,843#161 | Up 60 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,446#208 | Up 79 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 2,318#117 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,614#195 | Up 404 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,109#278 | Up 205 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 7,136#14 | Up 1,816 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,435#211 | Up 154 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,259#247 | Up 116 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,807#168 | Up 374 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,156#269 | Up 956 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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A names climbing fastest
Biggest A names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.