Aelita
Aelita was given to 8 girls in 2025, #10,936 among girls’ names; 103 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aelita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aelita mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aelita is “a female given name from Russian.”
From Russian Аэли́та (Aelíta).
/aɪˈlitə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aelita?
#10,936 among girls’ names, 2025
Aelita rose from #14,539 in 2015 to #10,936 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 5.0 per million.
15 babies in 2022, the peak
Aelita peaked in 2022, when 15 girls were given it, #7,284 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,936 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,136 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,199 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,284 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,981 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,487 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,476 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,624 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,960 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,539 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #14,637 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,182 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aelita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aelita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aelita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aelita, and how old are they?
An estimated 102 Americans named Aelita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 38,310 babies since 1880, Aelita is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 127 babies (6.3%), the third most given that year.
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 Aelita
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 Aelita and names like it
- Compare Aelita and AltaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAelita peaked in 2022.
- Russian namesWiktionary’s origin for Aelita: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Aelita.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aelita alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.