Girls' name · since 1995
Aeja
48 babies named Aeja in U.S. Social Security records since 1995, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #35,370 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 48
- born since 1995
- 2000s
- peak decade
Aeja sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 48 recorded since 1995.
Aeja has 48 recorded births among girls since 1995, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1995 to 2007.
- #35,370 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 48 born since 1995
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aeja ranks #35,370 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 48 born since 1995, peaking in the 2000s.
- #35,370 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 48
- born since 1995
- 2000s
- peak decade
Aeja's 48 recorded births place it above 50.79% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Aeja's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Aeja's SSA record in two at 2003 and the more recent half accounts for 50% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 50%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1995, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1996 peak of 8, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Aeja popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1995–2007
- Peak year (1996)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 13 years of records
Aeja by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (35 births, 73% of the file).
2000s was Aeja's strongest decade.
35 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 73% of all-time use.
Aeja births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 13
1990s
13 births
- 2000s
2000s
35 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 35 births (73% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Aeja: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1996)
Similar record span (~12 yrs)
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, 1995–2007 (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 Aeja 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.