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Aylan vs Ayleen

American parents have registered 7,260 Ayleens since 1880, against 696 Aylans. Ayleen is still ahead, with 313 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aylan against Ayleen, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aylan Ayleen

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

Ayleen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Aylan had 96 and Ayleen had 361.

Side by side

  Aylan Ayleen
Total US births 6967,260
Most in one year 96379
Babies in 2025 72313
Estimated living today 6907,200
Median age today 611
Peak year 20162012
Best rank 1,655th boys730th girls
Rank in 2025 2,056th862nd
First recorded 20081913
Girls / boys 0 / 6967,260 / 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 Ayleens alive today are over 11; half the Aylans are over 6. That is 5 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 Aylan Ayleen
France 8,410815
Switzerland 230625
Belgium 23373
England and Wales 95136
Ireland 34

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: Aylan and Ayleen.