Aerial
Aerial was given to 7 girls in 2025, #11,959 among girls’ names; 2,007 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,970 Americans named Aerial and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aerial by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aerial?
#11,959 among girls’ names, 2025
Aerial fell from #4,071 in 2015 to #11,959 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.2 to 4.4 per million.
138 babies in 1991, the peak
Aerial peaked in 1991, when 138 babies were given it (132 girls, #1,266 among girls’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,959 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,949 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,217 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,550 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,747 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,930 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,417 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,889 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,809 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,405 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,071 | 20.2 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,271 | 27.4 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,002 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,385 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,209 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,736 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,680 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,938 | 21.2 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,131 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,176 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,400 | 23.8 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,896 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 50 | #2,996 | 27.4 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,885 | 28.4 |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,736 | 30.0 |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,476 | 33.6 |
| 1999 | 73 | #2,092 | 41.2 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,937 | 44.1 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,862 | 45.4 |
| 1996 | 89 | #1,700 | 50.8 |
| 1995 | 82 | #1,758 | 46.6 |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,723 | 47.6 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,980 | 38.7 |
| 1992 | 99 | #1,562 | 53.7 |
| 1991 | 132 | #1,266 | 70.4 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,730 | 44.2 |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,164 | 30.4 |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,048 | 32.0 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,611 | 21.9 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,903 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,083 | 16.9 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,731 | 19.6 |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,975 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,016 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,118 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aerial a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aerial has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 45 years of records.
Girls and boys named Aerial: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aerial, and how old are they?
1,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,007 Americans ever recorded as Aerial. The median Aerial alive today is 29 years old; half are between 20 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,576 people named Aerial (1,531 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,912 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 932 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 766 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 275 |
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 Aerial born?
The states with the most babies named Aerial are Texas, Alabama and Mississippi, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 224 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Alabama | 52 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Mississippi | 45 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Georgia | 35 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 35 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 28 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 25 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 24 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 24 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Aerial is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aerial is most over-represented in Texas: since 1981 it was given 1.2 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 Aerial 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 106,618 babies since 1880, Aerial is the second most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 1,426 babies (<1%), the fourth 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 Aerial
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 Aerial and names like it
- Compare Aerial and ArielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAerial peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aerial since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Aerial.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Aerial alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.