Aerial
#11,959 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Aerial has been given to 2,007 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #11,959 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 132 recorded.
Babies named Aerial, 2025
1 in 474,000
Aerial over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Aerial?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,959
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Aerial sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aerial. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Aerials were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Aerial was born before 1997 — so the typical Aerial is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 43.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 38.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,001
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (871).
Is Aerial 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
- −3,010
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,029
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −7,888
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.19×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 5.3%
- Peak was 1991 (132)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.1% average annual change
Spellings of Aerial
Aerial is not the most common spelling — April is, with 49.9% against Aerial's 0.41%.
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 Aerial is used
Across 1910–2025, Aerial was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 154,138 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 50,000
- 2Mississippi1 in 50,000
- 3Texas1 in 50,000
- 4Arkansas1 in 100,000
- 5Georgia1 in 100,000
- 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 8Tennessee1 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. Aerial has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Aerial by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Aerial
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Aerial
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aerial, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Aerial
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.