Aqsa
Aqsa was given to 84 girls in 2025, #2,196 among girls’ names; 741 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aqsa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aqsa?
#2,196 among girls’ names, 2025
Aqsa rose from #8,045 in 2015 to #2,196 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 52.3 per million.
84 babies in 2024, the peak
Aqsa peaked in 2024, when 84 girls were given it, #2,234 among girls’ names. The 84 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #2,196 | 52.3 |
| 2024 | 84 | #2,234 | 51.8 |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,983 | 34.9 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,370 | 28.7 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,552 | 26.2 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,364 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,630 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,469 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,834 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,635 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,045 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,070 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,082 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,325 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,145 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,403 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,766 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,778 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,066 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,972 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,523 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,244 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,245 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,344 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,985 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,585 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,860 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,805 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,795 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,165 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,079 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,606 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,618 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,786 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,307 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,296 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aqsa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aqsa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aqsa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aqsa, and how old are they?
An estimated 735 Americans named Aqsa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 820 people named Aqsa (812 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 400 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Aqsa
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.
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