Aqua — girls' name
173 babies named Aqua in U.S. Social Security records since 1969, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
38% of everyone ever named Aqua was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Aqua in 2020 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Aqua
The Social Security Administration has registered 173 babies named Aqua between 1969 and 2023, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aqua currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Aqua performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 65 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Aqua shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Aqua in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 173 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Aqua at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Aqua popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1969
- Peak year (2020)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 55 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
173 total births across 55 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2020 with 10 births in a single year.
Aqua by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 65 births that decade — 38% of Aqua's all-time total
Aqua decade highlights
- Peak decade 65 births
- Runner-up 33 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Aqua's strongest decade
65 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 38% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1969–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.