Aidah
#13,246 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Aidah has been given to 185 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #13,246 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Aidah, 2025
1 in 553,000
Aidah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Aidah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,246
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Aidah 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aidah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Aidahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Aidah was born before 2016 — so the typical Aidah is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 51.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 185
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (95).
Is Aidah 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
- −5,273
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,976
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,785
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.46×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 42.9%
- Peak was 2021 (14)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.0% average annual change
Spellings of Aidah
Aidah is not the most common spelling — Ida is, with 25.7% against Aidah's 0.03%.
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.
Aidah around the world
Where Aidah 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 & Wales2009–2025#5,927in 2025
- Scotland2020–2025#780in 2025
- France2023–2023#6,937in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Aidah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Aidah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Aidah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.