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Aisa vs Aislynn

American parents have registered 2,784 Aislynns since 1880, against 563 Aisas. Aislynn is still ahead, with 89 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aisa against Aislynn, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aisa Aislynn

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 50 years in which either name was published, Aislynn for 38 years and Aisa for 12 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Aisa Aislynn
Total US births 5632,784
Most in one year 23160
Babies in 2025 689
Estimated living today 5502,800
Median age today 2412
Peak year 19942015
Best rank 4,521st girls1,437th girls
Rank in 2025 13,208th2,099th
First recorded 19731977
Girls / boys 558 / 52,784 / 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 Aislynns are over 12. That is 12 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: Aisa and Aislynn.