Aelita
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-eh-LEE-tah
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Aelita is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Aelita mean?
Modern: invented by Aleksey Tolstoy for his 1923 science-fiction novel Aelita
Aelita is the Martian princess in Tolstoy's novel, filmed in 1924; the name then spread in the Soviet Union.
Is Aelita a girl's or a boy's name?
Aelita is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aelita in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Aelita, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Aelita in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aelita in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
Names like Aelita
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Avianna, Analeia, Aubriella, Amoura, Cataleya, Arabella, Amora, Daleyza, Antonella, Aitana, Analia, Ariella
Names related to Aelita
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aelita: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aelita, updated 20 October 2026.