Aqueelah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Aqueelah

The Social Security Administration has registered 321 babies named Aqueelah between 1976 and 1996, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aqueelah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 37 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Aqueelah performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 150 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Aqueelah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 24 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Aqueelah in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Aqueelah 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 321 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.