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Aileah vs Ailene

American parents have registered 2,197 Ailenes since 1880, against 51 Aileahs. Ailene is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aileah against Ailene, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aileah Ailene

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

Ailene has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1900 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Aileah had 23 and Ailene had 25.

Side by side

  Aileah Ailene
Total US births 512,197
Most in one year 2356
Babies in 2025 under 518
Estimated living today 501,100
Median age today 1529
Peak year 20091926
Best rank 5,891st girls997th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked6,325th
First recorded 20091900
Girls / boys 51 / 02,197 / 0

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Ailenes alive today are over 29; half the Aileahs are over 15. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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