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Aelia

#6,329 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Aelius

Aelia has been given to 159 babies in the U.S. since 2016. In 2025 it ranked #6,329 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Aelia, 2025

1 in 184,000

Aelia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aelia: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Aelius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aelia means

Aelia is a feminine form of Aelius.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Aelia → Aelius. The family’s proposed meaning is “sun”, recorded in the naming reference for Aelius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aelius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 159 girls were recorded with the name Aelia between 2016 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,455 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,975 in 2020 to #6,329 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Aelia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,329
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aelia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aelia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aelias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aelia was born before 2022 — so the typical Aelia is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
81.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
159
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2020s — 81.1% of all recorded uses (129).

Is Aelia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−530
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,646
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
58.1%
Peak was 2023 (31)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,455
2023

Spellings of Aelia

Aelia is not the most common spelling — Julia is, with 14.2% against Aelia's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aelia is used

Across 1910–2025, Aelia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,886,246 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Aelia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aelia around the world

Where Aelia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2018–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2025
    #1,134
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aelia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,329
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,646
Best rank ever
#4,455
2023
Peak year
2023
31 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
159
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Aelia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Aelia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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