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Aislin vs Aislynn

American parents have registered 2,784 Aislynns since 1880, against 1,379 Aislins. Aislynn is still ahead, with 89 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aislin 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

Aislynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Aislin had 46 and Aislynn had 52.

Side by side

  Aislin Aislynn
Total US births 1,3792,784
Most in one year 82160
Babies in 2025 6789
Estimated living today 1,4002,800
Median age today 1412
Peak year 20132015
Best rank 2,259th girls1,437th girls
Rank in 2025 2,583rd2,099th
First recorded 19931977
Girls / boys 1,379 / 02,784 / 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 Aislins alive today are over 14; half the Aislynns are over 12. That is 2 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: Aislin and Aislynn.