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Ayleen vs Aylen

American parents have registered 7,260 Ayleens since 1880, against 1,472 Aylens. Ayleen is still ahead, with 313 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ayleen Aylen

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 2025, when Ayleen had 313 and Aylen had 138.

Side by side

  Ayleen Aylen
Total US births 7,2601,472
Most in one year 379138
Babies in 2025 313138
Estimated living today 7,2001,500
Median age today 117
Peak year 20122025
Best rank 730th girls1,652nd girls
Rank in 2025 862nd1,652nd
First recorded 19131997
Girls / boys 7,260 / 01,349 / 123

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 Aylens are over 7. That is 4 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 Ayleen Aylen
France 815100
Switzerland 62513 Aylén
England and Wales 1366

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: Ayleen and Aylen.