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Ailanny vs Ailany

American parents have registered 11,178 Ailanys since 1880, against 502 Ailannys. Ailany is still ahead, with 7,154 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ailanny against Ailany, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ailanny Ailany

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ailany has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2000 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Ailanny had 6 and Ailany had 28.

Side by side

  Ailanny Ailany
Total US births 50211,178
Most in one year 2807,154
Babies in 2025 2807,154
Estimated living today 50011,000
Median age today 00
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 932nd girls14th girls
Rank in 2025 932nd14th
First recorded 20112000
Girls / boys 502 / 011,160 / 18

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ailanny and Ailany.