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Aylah vs Aylee

American parents have registered 2,332 Aylahs since 1880, against 524 Aylees. Aylah is still ahead, with 170 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aylah against Aylee, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aylah Aylee

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

Aylah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1988 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Aylah had 7 and Aylee had 7.

Side by side

  Aylah Aylee
Total US births 2,332524
Most in one year 21352
Babies in 2025 17024
Estimated living today 2,300520
Median age today 68
Peak year 20212021
Best rank 1,148th girls3,112th girls
Rank in 2025 1,309th5,238th
First recorded 19882000
Girls / boys 2,332 / 0524 / 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 Aylees alive today are over 8; half the Aylahs are over 6. 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 Aylah Aylee
England and Wales 4303
France 55145
Scotland 526

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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