Girl Names That Start With A
These are the 217 girl names that start with A, have reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880, and still go to girls rather than boys today. Ranked by the number of girls given each name in 2025, most common first.
All 217 names
- Amelia
- Ava
- Ailany
- Aurora
- Aria
- Avery
- Abigail
- Adeline
- Alice
- Ayla
- Addison
- Audrey
- Autumn
- Amara
- Aaliyah
- Allison
- Anna
- Athena
- Alaia
- Ariana
- Alina
- Amira
- Alana
- Aubrey
- Arya
- Alani
- Anastasia
- Ashley
- Ailani
- Ariella
- Amaya
- Annie
- Adalynn
- Alora
- Adaline
- Aitana
- Arabella
- Ada
- Alaina
- Arianna
- Andrea
- Alexandra
- Ana
- Amora
- Amy
- Adalyn
- Aliyah
- Aspen
- Arleth
- Azalea
- Alanna
- Antonella
- Adelaide
- Aurelia
- Aylani
- Adelina
- Amina
- Alessia
- Alayna
- Anaya
- Aisha
- Annabelle
- Aylin
- Angelina
- Adelyn
- Ariel
- Adriana
- Ariyah
- Alaya
- Adhara
- Anya
- Astrid
- Amari
- Angela
- Annalise
- Alayah
- Alessandra
- Adelynn
- Alma
- Alyssa
- Alicia
- Alexandria
- Alison
- Anahi
- Ainsley
- Alivia
- Aniyah
- Arielle
- Aubree
- Amirah
- Amanda
- Arlette
- Amber
- April
- Angel
- Alexis
- Armani
- Amalia
- Allie
- Avianna
- Alejandra
- Ari
- Anne
- Amiyah
- Ariah
- Aleena
- Alondra
- Averie
- Angie
- Angelica
- Analia
- Abby
- Araceli
- Adele
- Aileen
- Adrianna
- Aviana
- Anika
- Aleah
- Ashlyn
- Ashlynn
- Addilyn
- Annika
- Agnes
- Alexa
- Alexia
- Aniya
- Ann
- Allyson
- Abril
- Adela
- Angelique
- Alisha
- Addie
- Ashly
- Antonia
- Althea
- Anita
- Annabella
- Aubrie
- Ayanna
- Alyson
- Addyson
- Avah
- Annette
- Addisyn
- Angeline
- Aimee
- Arlene
- Abbie
- Alisa
- Adrienne
- Agatha
- America
- Adah
- Alissa
- Audra
- Amya
- Annabel
- Ashanti
- Adelia
- Ally
- Asia
- Audrina
- Adella
- Annmarie
- Allisson
- Annemarie
- Anabelle
- Antoinette
- Anissa
- Augusta
- Ara
- Aja
- Aline
- Alysha
- Abbigail
- Alyce
- Ashlee
- Alta
- Alesia
- Amie
- Angelia
- Alida
- Alva
- Abbey
- Adrianne
- Alvina
- Arleen
- Adda
- Ashleigh
- Alexandrea
- Ashely
- Alberta
- Alexus
- Annetta
- Almira
- Ashlie
- Adell
- Albina
- Allene
- Alpha
- Avis
- Alene
- Arrie
- Albertha
- Alda
- Alfreda
- Almeda
- Altha
- Anitra
- Ardis
- Ardith
- Aretha
- Arline
- Arminta
- Arvilla
Also starting with A, and now given almost only to boys: Adrian, Ashton, Artie
Girl names that start with A in the 2025 data
A is the most common first letter for girls born in 2025: 265,134 of them, 16.5% of every girl in the file. It held first place a decade ago too, and its share has fallen from 18.5% to 16.5%.
This list holds the 217 of those names that reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to girls rather than boys. The most common today is Amelia, #4 with 12,699 girls in 2025. 14 of the 217 are in this year's top 100, and 205 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Three other names starting with A are left out — Adrian, Ashton and Artie. Each reached the top 500 among girls at some point, but fewer than one in ten children given it over the last ten years was a girl. Together they account for 187,982 of those 265,134 girls — the remainder go to names that have never reached the top 500, each given to a handful of children.
The fastest climber among them is Adhara, up from #10,148 in 2015 to #370 in 2025. Aubree has gone the other way, from #79 to #489. The shortest name here is Ada at 3 letters, the longest Antoinette at 10.
Questions about girl names that start with A
What is the most popular girl name that starts with A?
Amelia. 12,699 girls were given the name in 2025, which put it at #4 nationally.
How many girl names start with A?
217 have reached the top 500 as a girl's name and still go to girls today, which is this list. Counting every spelling in the file, 265,134 girls born in 2025 — 16.5% of the total — were given a name starting with A.
Are girl names that start with A getting more popular?
A is losing ground. It was first among first letters for girls a decade ago with 18.5% of births, and it is first in 2025 with 16.5%.