Girls' name · since 2015
Aafia
Aafia has 31 recorded births since 2015 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #40,413 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,490 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 31
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Aafia is the #14490 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 31 recorded since 2015.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aafia has been recorded 31 times among girls since 2015, currently ranked #14490 nationally and more common than 16% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2015 to 2025.
- #40,413 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,490 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 31 born since 2015
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aafia ranks #40,413 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,490 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 31 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.
- #40,413 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,490 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 31
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Aafia's 31 recorded births place it above 43.66% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Aafia compares
31 11th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Aafia's all-time total is 92% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Aafia | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 31 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Aafia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Aafia's full recorded timeline at 2021, 65% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 35% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2020, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2024 peak of 9 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Aafia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Aafia by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (25 births, 81% of the file).
2020s was Aafia's strongest decade.
25 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 81% of all-time use.
Aafia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 6
2010s
6 births
- 2020s
2020s
25 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 25 births (81% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2015–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Aafia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.