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Aylani vs Aylene

American parents have registered 2,831 Aylanis since 1880, against 514 Aylenes. Aylani is still ahead, with 1,043 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aylani against Aylene, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aylani Aylene

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 41 years in which either name was published, Aylene for 26 years and Aylani for 15 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aylani Aylene
Total US births 2,831514
Most in one year 1,04324
Babies in 2025 1,04315
Estimated living today 2,800430
Median age today 115
Peak year 20252005
Best rank 293rd girls5,266th girls
Rank in 2025 293rd7,133rd
First recorded 20031914
Girls / boys 2,831 / 0514 / 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 Aylenes alive today are over 15; half the Aylanis are over 1. That is 14 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: Aylani and Aylene.