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Aisley vs Aisling

American parents have registered 1,533 Aislings since 1880, against 1,100 Aisleys. But in 2025 it was Aisley that was commoner, 48 babies to 39.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aisley against Aisling, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aisley Aisling

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 48 years in which either name was published, Aisling for 34 years and Aisley for 14 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Aisley Aisling
Total US births 1,1001,533
Most in one year 9561
Babies in 2025 4839
Estimated living today 1,1001,500
Median age today 1018
Peak year 20142002
Best rank 2,049th girls2,554th girls
Rank in 2025 3,249th3,780th
First recorded 19951972
Girls / boys 1,100 / 01,533 / 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 Aislings alive today are over 18; half the Aisleys are over 10. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Aisley and Aisling.