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Aisley vs Aislyn

American parents have registered 1,956 Aislyns since 1880, against 1,100 Aisleys. Aislyn is still ahead, with 77 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aisley 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 39 years in which either name was published, Aislyn for 37 years and Aisley for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Aisley Aislyn
Total US births 1,1001,956
Most in one year 95111
Babies in 2025 4877
Estimated living today 1,1001,900
Median age today 1013
Peak year 20142015
Best rank 2,049th girls1,850th girls
Rank in 2025 3,249th2,354th
First recorded 19951979
Girls / boys 1,100 / 01,956 / 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 Aislyns 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 Aislyn.