Aerial
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AIR-ee-ul
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Aerial is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “lion of God”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Aerial mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Ariel, influenced by the word aerial
“lion of God”
A spelling of Ariel shaped by the word aerial 'of the air'; Ariel is the airy spirit in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Is Aerial a girl's or a boy's name?
Aerial is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aerial in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 59% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Aerial, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 1991, with 132 girls. It first appears in the records in 1981.
Half of all the girls named Aerial in the US since 1880 were born between 1991 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 898 girls in the US were given Aerial or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #366, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Aerial in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,744 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,886 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,398 |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,068 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,270 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,000 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,385 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,205 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,734 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,676 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,935 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,130 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,175 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,400 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,894 |
| 2003 | 50 | #2,996 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,884 |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,736 |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,476 |
| 1999 | 73 | #2,092 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,937 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,861 |
| 1996 | 89 | #1,700 |
| 1995 | 82 | #1,757 |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,723 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,980 |
| 1992 | 99 | #1,562 |
| 1991 | 132 | #1,266 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,729 |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,164 |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,046 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,610 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,902 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,083 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,729 |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,974 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,016 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,108 |
Names like Aerial
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Cassidy, Abigail, Brianna, Kiara, Mckenna, Eden, Kennedy, Teagan, Arielle, Brynn, Brooklyn, Ashlyn
Other spellings of Aerial
Names related to Aerial
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
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, “Aerial: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aerial, updated 20 October 2026.