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Aylee vs Aylin

American parents have registered 16,935 Aylins since 1880, against 524 Aylees. Aylin is still ahead, with 885 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aylee against Aylin, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aylee Aylin

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

Aylin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Aylee had 52 and Aylin had 744.

Side by side

  Aylee Aylin
Total US births 52416,935
Most in one year 52899
Babies in 2025 24885
Estimated living today 52017,000
Median age today 810
Peak year 20212015
Best rank 3,112th girls367th girls
Rank in 2025 5,238th345th
First recorded 20001973
Girls / boys 524 / 016,872 / 63

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 Aylins alive today are over 10; half the Aylees are over 8. 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 Aylee Aylin
France 1453,485
England and Wales 3749
Scotland 64

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: Aylee and Aylin.