Aquilla — unisex name

What the Data Says About Aquilla

The Social Security Administration has registered 986 babies named Aquilla between 1889 and 2018, spanning 130 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aquilla currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Aquilla is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 121 additional births since 1909.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Aquilla performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 169 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Aquilla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Aquilla in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Aquilla 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 986 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.