Aoife

#2,117 for girls in 2025, 88 births

Peak · girls
2018 · 117 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,181
since 1985

Aoife over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Aoife has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202004peak #1,748, 2018girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#2,11788
2024#2,23184
2023#2,12490
2022#1,782115
2021#1,861107
2020#1,818108
2019#1,98697
2018#1,748117
2017#1,876108
2016#1,929104
2015#2,01298
2014#2,41275
2013#2,72663
2012#2,49573
2011#2,72564
2010#2,78163
2009#2,64369
2008#2,69068
2007#2,99259
2006#3,22451
2005#2,93555
2004#3,26546
2003#3,13147
2002#3,19644
2001#3,86433
2000#3,98331
1999#4,57624
1998#3,91429
1997#3,44833
1996#4,18425
1995#4,51822
1994#4,23824
1993#5,67316
1992#8,06510
1991#8,5889
1990#8,5019
1989#9,6817
1988#11,7985
1987#11,3255
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First appearance
1985

The first year at least five girls were named Aoife! It came in at #9,307, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1986–1988, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Aoife
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 114 spots since 2024 (#2,231#2,117)
  • 299 spots since 2020 (#1,818#2,117)
  • 105 spots since 2015 (#2,012#2,117)
Rise & fade · girls
33 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1985
  • Peaked 2018 at #1,748 (117 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,262
  • Highest: 1 in 14,262 girls born in 2022 were named Aoife (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 18,264 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #1,748 in 2018, was only 1 in 14,539 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 39.5% of all girls named Aoife (862) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s23#9,307 (1985)#10,528
1990s201#3,448 (1997)#5,571
2000s503#2,643 (2009)#3,192
2010s862#1,748 (2018)#2,269
2020s592#1,782 (2022)#1,989

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Aoife in 2004

girls
#3,265
46 births · 1 in 39,918 girls

Top girls' names in 2004

  1. #1Emily25,042
  2. #2Emma21,625
  3. #3Madison20,628
  4. #4Olivia16,108
  5. #5Hannah15,614
  6. #6Abigail15,436
  7. #7Isabella15,021
  8. #8Ashley14,377
  9. #9Samantha13,786
  10. #10Elizabeth13,577
  11. #3,265Aoife46
More about 2004

girls

1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 39,918 of them was named Aoife, which outranked 82.7% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aoife
  1. #3,224Tyesha47
  2. #3,224Vida47
  3. #3,224Zharia47
  4. #3,265Aoife46
  5. #3,265Adora46
  6. #3,265Anali46
  7. #3,265Anastazia46
  8. #3,333Allanah45
  9. #3,333Alyanna45
  10. #3,333Amairany45

Tied with 67 names at #3,265; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2003
Risers
  1. 948Rubi#1,561#613
  2. 607Kaydence#984#377
  3. 548Marin#1,383#835
  4. 543Diya#1,416#873
  5. 479Kadence#869#390
Fallers
  1. 1,607Arly#949#2,556
  2. 433Shakira#747#1,180
  3. 414Anais#990#1,404
  4. 365Lisbeth#742#1,107
  5. 274Reanna#990#1,264

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2004