girls:
13.4k births since 1881
#1335 (77th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1986
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
13.4k births since 1881
#2258 (71st percentile)
The name Aida is the #2,258 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,438 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 70.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,335 (76.6% percentile) for all time with 13,433 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1986.
Aida first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 1986 for boys). Birth data for Aida is available in 139 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (139 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Aida has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Aida reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 25.3% percentile (ranked #540) with 97 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 120 births per million (ranked 25.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Aida ranks #764 for girls (19.3% percentile) with 107 births per million, which is 89.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Aida reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #705) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aida".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Aida. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.1% confident that Aida is pronounced as AI-duh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ai-EE-duh, at 28.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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