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Aquila

“eagle”

masculineLatin script

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English

Origin: Not established
3 language contexts: English Italian Latin
Follow the evidence: 9 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Aquila

Aquila is a masculine given name documented in English, Italian and Latin. M. G. Easton, Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897): Aquila gives the meaning “eagle”.

Separate records with matching spellings: Áquila (Portuguese)

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “eagle”

[1] vom lateinischen Wort aquila (Adler)

Sources for this account (7)

German Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikidata Q21069234CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
M. G. Easton, Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897): Aquilapublic domain · retrieved 2026-10-16

02 / Across borders

Where Aquila is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Aquila’s connections around the world.

4 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 10 boys (rank 7679). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 13 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Aquila

Region and dataset

Latest · 2025: 6; applications; Rank #13,208
Peak year: 1991; 33 applications

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Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

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Aquila in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	6	5,208	observed
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	7	5,168	observed
1961	5	6,567	observed
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	5	8,324	observed
1972	16	3,714	observed
1973	11	4,871	observed
1974	20	3,313	observed
1975	14	4,370	observed
1976	17	3,812	observed
1977	29	2,780	observed
1978	17	4,079	observed
1979	14	4,842	observed
1980	16	4,517	observed
1981	16	4,532	observed
1982	25	3,344	observed
1983	17	4,286	observed
1984	31	2,851	observed
1985	25	3,419	observed
1986	18	4,347	observed
1987	15	5,074	observed
1988	14	5,598	observed
1989	17	5,049	observed
1990	16	5,549	observed
1991	33	3,301	observed
1992	32	3,419	observed
1993	19	4,998	observed
1994	23	4,376	observed
1995	27	3,878	observed
1996	21	4,739	observed
1997	14	6,483	observed
1998	14	6,719	observed
1999	17	5,896	observed
2000	11	8,534	observed
2001	11	8,758	observed
2002	10	9,482	observed
2003	5	15,784	observed
2004	5	16,099	observed
2005	10	10,128	observed
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	12	9,539	observed
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	5	17,294	observed
2010	7	13,448	observed
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	7	13,483	observed
2013	6	14,582	observed
2014	5	16,513	observed
2015	10	10,148	observed
2016	12	8,875	observed
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	5	15,682	observed
2019	19	6,176	observed
2020	10	9,546	observed
2021	7	12,206	observed
2022	11	9,056	observed
2023	8	11,169	observed
2024	7	12,161	observed
2025	6	13,208	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Aquila” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
AQUILA— “eagle”
Aquila was a companion of St. Paul; and another Aquila, under Hadrian, wavered long between Judaism and Christianity, and translated the Old Testament into Greek; but Aquila has not been followed save here and there in England and America as a Scripture name.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter IV (Cognomina), Section I · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Aquila with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q21069234CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
French Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
M. G. Easton, Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897): Aquilapublic domain · retrieved 2026-10-16

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Aquila.wavCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter IV (Cognomina), Section IPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Aquila

Aquila is a masculine given name documented in English, Italian and Latin. M. G. Easton, Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897): Aquila gives the meaning “eagle”.

Separate records with matching spellings: Áquila (Portuguese)

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “eagle”

[1] vom lateinischen Wort aquila (Adler)

Sources for this account (7)

German Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikidata Q21069234CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
M. G. Easton, Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897): Aquilapublic domain · retrieved 2026-10-16

Where Aquila is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Aquila’s connections around the world.

4 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 10 boys (rank 7679). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 13 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Aquila

Region and dataset

Latest · 2025: 6; applications; Rank #13,208
Peak year: 1991; 33 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Aquila in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	6	5,208	observed
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	7	5,168	observed
1961	5	6,567	observed
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	5	8,324	observed
1972	16	3,714	observed
1973	11	4,871	observed
1974	20	3,313	observed
1975	14	4,370	observed
1976	17	3,812	observed
1977	29	2,780	observed
1978	17	4,079	observed
1979	14	4,842	observed
1980	16	4,517	observed
1981	16	4,532	observed
1982	25	3,344	observed
1983	17	4,286	observed
1984	31	2,851	observed
1985	25	3,419	observed
1986	18	4,347	observed
1987	15	5,074	observed
1988	14	5,598	observed
1989	17	5,049	observed
1990	16	5,549	observed
1991	33	3,301	observed
1992	32	3,419	observed
1993	19	4,998	observed
1994	23	4,376	observed
1995	27	3,878	observed
1996	21	4,739	observed
1997	14	6,483	observed
1998	14	6,719	observed
1999	17	5,896	observed
2000	11	8,534	observed
2001	11	8,758	observed
2002	10	9,482	observed
2003	5	15,784	observed
2004	5	16,099	observed
2005	10	10,128	observed
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	12	9,539	observed
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	5	17,294	observed
2010	7	13,448	observed
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	7	13,483	observed
2013	6	14,582	observed
2014	5	16,513	observed
2015	10	10,148	observed
2016	12	8,875	observed
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	5	15,682	observed
2019	19	6,176	observed
2020	10	9,546	observed
2021	7	12,206	observed
2022	11	9,056	observed
2023	8	11,169	observed
2024	7	12,161	observed
2025	6	13,208	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
AQUILA— “eagle”
Aquila was a companion of St. Paul; and another Aquila, under Hadrian, wavered long between Judaism and Christianity, and translated the Old Testament into Greek; but Aquila has not been followed save here and there in England and America as a Scripture name.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter IV (Cognomina), Section I · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q21069234CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
French Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AquilaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
M. G. Easton, Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897): Aquilapublic domain · retrieved 2026-10-16

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Aquila.wavCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter IV (Cognomina), Section IPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Aquila

About Aquila

Meaning in the sources

Where Aquila is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Akwila

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Aquila

About Aquila

Meaning in the sources

Where Aquila is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Akwila

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Aquila

Meaning in the sources

Where Aquila is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Akwila

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Aquila

Meaning in the sources

Where Aquila is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Akwila

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page