Aarna
Aarna was given to 137 girls in 2025, #1,540 among girls’ names; 2,848 Americans have been recorded with it since 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,830 Americans named Aarna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aarna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aarna?
#1,540 among girls’ names, 2025
Aarna fell from #1,526 in 2015 to #1,540 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 82.3 to 85.2 per million.
268 babies in 2021, the peak
Aarna peaked in 2021, when 268 girls were given it, #967 among girls’ names. The 137 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 137 | #1,540 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 186 | #1,250 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 181 | #1,269 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 200 | #1,206 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 268 | #967 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 245 | #1,023 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 193 | #1,209 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 163 | #1,378 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 150 | #1,482 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 148 | #1,523 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 147 | #1,526 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 174 | #1,345 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 141 | #1,546 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 123 | #1,698 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 120 | #1,722 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 93 | #2,118 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 57 | #2,999 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,157 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 39 | #3,982 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,841 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aarna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aarna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aarna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aarna, and how old are they?
2,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,848 Americans ever recorded as Aarna. The median Aarna alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,568 people named Aarna (1,562 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,682 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 511 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,320 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aarna born?
The states with the most babies named Aarna are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 23 | #1,111 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 22 | #1,190 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #618 | 3.8× |
| Washington | 10 | #618 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,015 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,058 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 7 | #965 | 0.5× |
| New York | 6 | #1,830 | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,181 | 1.4× |
Where Aarna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aarna is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 2005 it was given 3.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aarna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,049 babies since 1880, Aarna is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 137 of their 295 babies (46%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aarna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aarna and names like it
- Compare Aarna and ArinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAarna peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aarna since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Aarna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aarna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.