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Aisa vs Aislyn

American parents have registered 1,956 Aislyns since 1880, against 563 Aisas. Aislyn is still ahead, with 77 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aisa against Aislyn, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aisa Aislyn

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

Of the 49 years in which either name was published, Aislyn for 30 years and Aisa for 19 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Aisa Aislyn
Total US births 5631,956
Most in one year 23111
Babies in 2025 677
Estimated living today 5501,900
Median age today 2413
Peak year 19942015
Best rank 4,521st girls1,850th girls
Rank in 2025 13,208th2,354th
First recorded 19731979
Girls / boys 558 / 51,956 / 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 Aisas alive today are over 24; half the Aislyns are over 13. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aisa Aislyn
England and Wales 313

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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