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Aisley vs Aislinn

American parents have registered 5,521 Aislinns since 1880, against 1,100 Aisleys. Aislinn is still ahead, with 131 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aisley against Aislinn, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aisley Aislinn

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 52 years in which either name was published, Aislinn for 51 years and Aisley for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Aisley Aislinn
Total US births 1,1005,521
Most in one year 95303
Babies in 2025 48131
Estimated living today 1,1005,500
Median age today 1013
Peak year 20142018
Best rank 2,049th girls891st girls
Rank in 2025 3,249th1,592nd
First recorded 19951969
Girls / boys 1,100 / 05,521 / 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 Aislinns alive today are over 13; half the Aisleys are over 10. That is 3 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 Aislinn.