Aquila is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Aquila in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Aquila in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Aquila by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Aquila ranks at #9,841. That means there are 9,840 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Aquila.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Aquila. Girls named Aquila have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,279 Aquila ranked higher than ever before in 1977. By comparison, there have been 90 years in which the first name Aquila has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2011. In general, parents name their daughters Aquila only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Aquila was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Aquila continues to be a precious jewel: 20 newborns were named Aquila that year, ranking #5,250 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Aquila, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Aquila, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in Florida and New York. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Aquila living in one state or another (if your name is Aquila and you live outside of Florida and New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 518,840 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Aquila. So, if your name is Aquila it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Aquila already makes you special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With six letters, the name Aquila is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Aquila and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Aquila, you can simply say:
Apple
Queen
Unicorn
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Aquila
Aquila
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
Q
U
I
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
Q
U
I
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Aquila sounds like this:
