Aerith
Girl name · 3 babies recorded · 1974–2025
Aerith: 3 babies born in Scotland since 1974, given to girls, peaking at 3 births in 2025.
Aerith is a modern invented name, famously created by Japanese game designer Yoshinori Kitase for the character Aerith Gainsborough in the 1997 video game *Final Fantasy VII*. The spelling is a deliberate variation of the English name "Erica" (meaning "eternal ruler" from Old Norse) or possibly "Earth," reflecting the character's deep connection to the planet. Aerith's gentle, healing nature in the game has made the name synonymous with kindness and resilience, and it has been used as a given name for girls in Scotland since the early 2000s, well outside its Japanese pop-culture origin. A linguistically unrelated but phonetically similar name is the Arabic "Aisha," meaning "living."
Girl 1 of 52 years
- Peak year
- 20253 babies
- Latest (2025)
- #7803 babies
- Total births
- 3since 2025
- 5-year trend
- ≈ stablevs prior 5y