Aquilla
Aquilla is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 198622 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1889
- 1,107people given the name
The story in the numbers
986 girls have been named Aquilla in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1986, with 22 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 22 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1980s alone account for 17%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 121 boys have also been given it, 11% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Aquilla | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 31 | |
| 1910s | 62 | |
| 1920s | 108 | |
| 1930s | 89 | |
| 1940s | 92 | |
| 1950s | 97 | |
| 1960s | 84 | |
| 1970s | 106 | |
| 1980s | 169 | |
| 1990s | 121 | |
| 2000s | 11 | |
| 2010s | 6 |
In 1986, its biggest year
Aquilla was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1986 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Jennifer and Sarah. See all of 1986.
Names that rose and fell with Aquilla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Armandapeak 1981
- Franciscapeak 1928
- Felicitapeak 1964
- Mariettepeak 1950
- Corrinepeak 1926
- Corrinnepeak 1924
- Corenapeak 1961
- Kathrynpeak 1952
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.