Aqua

#11,031 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Aqua has been given to 181 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #11,031 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Aqua, 2025

1 in 414,000

Aqua over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,031
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aqua 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aqua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aquas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aqua was born before 2012 — so the typical Aqua is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
181
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Aqua 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,408
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,668
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.0%
Peak was 2020 (10)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,925
1977

Spellings of Aqua

Aqua is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 44.1% against Aqua'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.

Aqua around the world

Where Aqua 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
    2002–2002
    #4,137
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Aqua by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,031
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,408
Best rank ever
#6,925
1977
Peak year
2020
10 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
181
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Aqua

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

Sibling names for Aqua

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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