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Aide

#7,901 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Aide has been given to 2,010 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #7,901 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 100 recorded.

Babies named Aide, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aide: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aide means

Aide is a given name.

The naming story behind Aide

Wikidata records Aide as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q65257803, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,010 girls were recorded with the name Aide between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 100 in 1996; its best national rank was #1,569 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,327 in 2020 to #7,901 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,460 in 2015 to #7,901 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 Aide?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,901
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aide 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aide. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aides were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aide was born before 1995 — so the typical Aide is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,010
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (510).

Is Aide 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
−1,502
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,574
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,441
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.0%
Peak was 1996 (100)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,569
1996

Spellings of Aide

Aide is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 30.4% against Aide's 0.10%.

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 Aide is used

Across 1910–2025, Aide was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 42,874 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6New York1 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. Aide has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Aide

People whose public names include Aide, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Aide by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,901
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,574
Best rank ever
#1,569
1996
Peak year
1996
100 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,010
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Aide

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

AidenAidanAidynAidaJaideAidelAidyAideeAidahHeideAidanaSaideAyomideAideenAidelynAidalyAdalaideHaideAidiaAidynnElideAidalynAidetteZaide

Names with a curve like Aide

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aide, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Aide

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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