Acadia
Acadia was given to 26 girls in 2025, #4,986 among girls’ names; 1,119 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Acadia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Acadia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Acadia?
#4,986 among girls’ names, 2025
Acadia fell from #3,478 in 2015 to #4,986 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.2 to 16.2 per million.
62 babies in 2018, the peak
Acadia peaked in 2018, when 62 girls were given it, #2,743 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,986 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,113 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,451 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,701 | 25.0 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,734 | 24.4 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,281 | 29.1 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,666 | 24.4 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,743 | 36.4 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,768 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,344 | 18.6 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #3,478 | 25.2 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,584 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,313 | 27.4 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,524 | 25.6 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,780 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,960 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,869 | 21.8 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,179 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,051 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,669 | 22.1 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,264 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,489 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,727 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,126 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,172 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,286 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,713 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,953 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,865 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,132 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,512 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,841 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,556 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,060 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,145 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,410 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,363 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,278 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Acadia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Acadia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Acadia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Acadia, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,119 Americans ever recorded as Acadia. The median Acadia alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 881 people named Acadia (871 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 903 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 78 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 502 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 529 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Acadia
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 Acadia and names like it
- Compare Acadia and AliahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAcadia peaked in 2018.
- Maine’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Acadia since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Acadia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Acadia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.