Aquila

#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to girls 84.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
1977 · 29 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
760
since 1955

Aquila over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201991peak #2,780, 1977peak #5,123, 1977girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#13,2086#7,67910
2024#12,1617
2023#11,1698#10,8216
2022#9,05611#8,3009
2021#12,2067#5,33817
2020#9,54610#7,50210
2019#6,17619#8,8898
2018#15,6825#8,1549
2017#12,2465
2016#8,87512#7,60510
2015#10,14810
2014#16,5135
2013#14,5826#10,7286
2012#13,4837
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2010#13,4487
2009#17,2945
2008
2007#9,53912
2006#9,5857
2005#10,12810#10,1516
2004#16,0995
2003#15,7845#10,8945
2002#9,48210
2001#8,75811#9,2436
2000#8,53411
1999#5,89617
1998#6,71914
1997#6,48314
1996#4,73921
1995#3,87827#8,8685
1994#4,37623
1993#4,99819
1992#3,41932
1991#3,30133
1990#5,54916
1989#5,04917
1988#5,59814
1987#5,07415#6,9515
1986#4,34718
1985#3,41925
1984#2,85131
1983#4,28617
1982#3,34425
1981#4,53216#5,4686
1980#4,51716
1979#4,84214
1978#4,07917#5,7725
1977#2,78029#5,1236
1976#3,81217
1975#4,37014
1974#3,31320
1973#4,87111
1972#3,71416
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First appearance
1955

The first year at least five girls were named Aquila! It came in at #5,208, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1956–1959, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Aquila
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,047 spots since 2024 (#12,161#13,208)
  • 3,662 spots since 2020 (#9,546#13,208)
  • 3,060 spots since 2015 (#10,148#13,208)
Rise & fade · girls
22 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1955
  • Peaked 1977 at #2,780 (29 births)
  • Births halved by 1979, 2 yrs later
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 52,867
  • Highest: 1 in 52,867 girls born in 1977 were named Aquila (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 28.4% of all girls named Aquila (216) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
  • Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s6#5,208 (1955)#5,208
1960s12#5,168 (1960)#5,868
1970s143#2,780 (1977)#4,456
1980s194#2,851 (1984)#4,302
1990s216#3,301 (1991)#4,936
2000s69#8,534 (2000)#11,952
2010s71#6,176 (2019)#12,363
2020s49#9,056 (2022)#11,224

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.

Aquila in 1991

girls
#3,301
33 births · 1 in 56,818 girls

Top girls' names in 1991

  1. #1Ashley43,477
  2. #2Jessica43,398
  3. #3Brittany29,093
  4. #4Amanda28,896
  5. #5Samantha25,651
  6. #6Sarah25,233
  7. #7Stephanie22,775
  8. #8Jennifer20,673
  9. #9Elizabeth20,395
  10. #10Emily20,311
  11. #3,301Aquila33
More about 1991

girls

1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 56,818 of them was named Aquila, which outranked 78.7% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aquila
  1. #3,207Tylar34
  2. #3,207Victor34
  3. #3,207Xavier34
  4. #3,301Aquila33
  5. #3,301Adelaida33
  6. #3,301Aleasha33
  7. #3,301Anali33
  8. #3,369Adara32
  9. #3,369Aide32
  10. #3,369Alaa32

Tied with 67 names at #3,301; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1990
Risers
  1. 1,600Rebeccah#2,600#1,000
  2. 1,221Ieshia#1,938#717
  3. 1,135Miriah#2,081#946
  4. 861Alexus#1,813#952
  5. 676Chynna#1,512#836
Fallers
  1. 568Infant#432#1,000
  2. 510Lakeshia#897#1,407
  3. 466Latifah#701#1,167
  4. 432Martika#757#1,189
  5. 416Cecily#575#991

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

See the top 100 for 1991