Girls' name · since 2017
Aera
98 babies named Aera in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #27,283 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,320 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 98
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Aera currently ranks #8320 among girls' names in America, with 98 babies recorded since 2017.
Social Security Administration records show Aera recorded 98 times among girls since 2017, holding rank #8320 nationally today, ahead of 52% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #27,283 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #8,320 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 98 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aera ranks #27,283 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,320 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 98 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #27,283 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,320 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 98
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Aera's 98 recorded births place it above 62.15% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Aera compares
98 25th 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
Aera's all-time total is 74% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Aera | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 98 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 19 | 21 | 19,840 |
Aera's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Aera's full recorded timeline at 2021, 71% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 29% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2017, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2023 peak of 19 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Aera popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 19
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Aera by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (83 births, 85% of the file).
2020s was Aera's strongest decade.
83 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 85% of all-time use.
Aera births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 15
2010s
15 births
- 2020s
2020s
83 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 83 births (85% 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, 2017–2025 (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 Aera 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.