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Aella

#4,067 in 2025Girls' name

Whirlwind

Aella has been given to 626 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #4,067 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Aella, 2025

1 in 94,700

Aella 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aella: meaning, origin, and history

Whirlwind

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aella means

Aella means “whirlwind”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 626 girls were recorded with the name Aella between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 104 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,906 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,342 in 2020 to #4,067 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,240 in 2015 to #4,067 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 Aella?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 45,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,067
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aella 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aella was born before 2020 — so the typical Aella is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
60.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
626
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 60.9% of all recorded uses (381).

Is Aella 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
−1,018
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,725
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,173
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.75×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.7%
Peak was 2023 (104)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,906
2023

Spellings of Aella

Aella is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 16.1% against Aella's 0.02%.

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 Aella is used

Across 2016–2025, Aella was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 50,796 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Indiana1 in 33,333
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 33,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 50,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

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.

Aella around the world

Where Aella 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
    2015–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2023–2023
    #630
    in 2023
  • France
    2003–2025
    #3,150
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,067
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,725
Best rank ever
#1,906
2023
Peak year
2023
104 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
626
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Aella

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

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Sibling names for Aella

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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