Aela

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Aela: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Aela: Recorded since 1999, it reached #296 in 2017, and it stood at #384 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#296highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2006	#3116
2007	#5201
2008	#5545
2009	#5556
2011	#2893
2012	#4171
2013	#4739
2014	#1702
2015	#2705
2016	#3609
2017	#1995
2018	#2901
2019	#3151
2020	#5493
2021	#2341
2022	#2488
2023	#1640
2024	#1541

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 19 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

In 2024: #384 among girls in Scotland, #1541 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1999–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #3900 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2017–2018
Highest recorded position: #296 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2017 (recorded 2017–2018).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1541 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Aela appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 158 births with the name.

Aela across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Aela's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#1541 (2024)	#1541 (2024)	19 of 26	158 (1999–2024)	20 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#559 (2003)	#510 (2011)	#625 (2023)	18 of 21	88 (2003–2023)	8 (2011)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#296 (2017)	#296 (2017)	#361 (2018)	2 of 2	9 (2017–2018)	5 (2017)

Aela by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Aela in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	15	4 of 10	4
2010s	78	9 of 10	9
2020sbusiest	62	5 of 10	12

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Aela appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #296 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Aela's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1541	20	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1640	18	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1995	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1702	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2893	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#361	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#296	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	7	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#524	7	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#581	6	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#510	8	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#641	5	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#624	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#384	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1999 and 2024, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #296, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 20 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Nela · #296, 21y
Fearne · #295, 24y
Alayah · #298, 23y
Aylah · #298, 20y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Annabella · #296, 29y
Indy · #296, 24y
Lailah · #296, 28y
Mikail · #296, 29y

Aela was ranked #296 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2017. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aela and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Aela without appearing here.

Aela moved ahead of

Kristine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1541 and #5891.
Kristin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1640 and #5687.
Tracey Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5493 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1640 and #5687.
Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4171 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1702 and #5691.

Moved ahead of Aela

Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1995 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2901 and #1436.
Harper Compare
In 2012 they stood at #641 and #893 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #894 and #241.
Aria Compare
In 2012 they stood at #510 and #695 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #894 and #246.
Emilie Compare
In 2012 they stood at #510 and #550 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #894 and #286.

Moved the opposite way to Aela

Abigail Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aela went from #3900 to #1541 while Abigail went from #20 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aela went from #3900 to #1541 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aela went from #3900 to #1541 while Aisling went from #410 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aela went from #3900 to #1541 while Alex went from #204 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Aela

Ada Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aela went from #3900 to #1541 and Ada from #2189 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aela went from #3900 to #1541 and Alma from #3225 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aela went from #3900 to #1541 and Alyssa from #483 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aela went from #3900 to #1541 and Amalie from #2770 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #296 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Aela

Aela at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aela across 3 official records

Aela by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aela appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Aela

Aela and the names beside it

Aela moved ahead of

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Aela at a glance

Aela across 3 official records

Aela by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aela appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Aela

Aela and the names beside it

Aela moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Aela

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