Girls' name · since 2015
Xaela
Xaela has 51 recorded births since 2015 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2020 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #34,917 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,741 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 51
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Xaela currently ranks #11741 among girls' names in America, with 51 babies recorded since 2015.
Social Security Administration records show Xaela recorded 51 times among girls since 2015, holding rank #11741 nationally today, ahead of 32% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2015 to 2025.
- #34,917 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #11,741 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 51 born since 2015
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Xaela ranks #34,917 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,741 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 51 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.
- #34,917 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,741 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 51
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Xaela's 51 recorded births place it above 51.71% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Xaela compares
51 16th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Xaela's all-time total is 86% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Xaela | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 51 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 10 | 21 | 19,840 |
Xaela's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Xaela splits its recorded history at 2022: 61% of all births land in the more recent half, 39% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2015 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2020 peak of 10 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Xaela popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025
- Peak year (2020)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Xaela by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (41 births, 80% of the file).
2020s was Xaela's strongest decade.
41 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 80% of all-time use.
Xaela births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 10
2010s
10 births
- 2020s
2020s
41 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 41 births (80% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Xaela: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2015–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Xaela draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.