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Aislynn vs Aissatou

American parents have registered 2,784 Aislynns since 1880, against 951 Aissatous. Aislynn is still ahead, with 89 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aislynn Aissatou

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 1995, when Aislynn had 19 and Aissatou had 13.

Side by side

  Aislynn Aissatou
Total US births 2,784951
Most in one year 16053
Babies in 2025 8942
Estimated living today 2,800940
Median age today 1214
Peak year 20152023
Best rank 1,437th girls3,091st girls
Rank in 2025 2,099th3,577th
First recorded 19771992
Girls / boys 2,784 / 0951 / 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 Aissatous 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aislynn Aissatou
France 53,025

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aislynn and Aissatou.