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Ayslinn vs Ayson

American parents have registered 691 Aysons since 1880, against 63 Ayslinns. Ayson is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ayslinn against Ayson, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ayslinn Ayson

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

Ayson has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2004 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Ayslinn had 12 and Ayson had 43.

Side by side

  Ayslinn Ayson
Total US births 63691
Most in one year 1261
Babies in 2025 under 538
Estimated living today 60690
Median age today 68
Peak year 20162019
Best rank 8,875th girls2,265th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,128th
First recorded 20162004
Girls / boys 63 / 00 / 691

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 Aysons alive today are over 8; half the Ayslinns are over 6. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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