Ailene
#6,330 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ailene has been given to 2,197 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #6,330 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1926, with 56 recorded.
Babies named Ailene, 2025
1 in 184,000
Ailene over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ailene?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 184,000
- 18 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 89,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,330
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 127,662 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ailene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ailene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ailenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ailene was born before 1944 — so the typical Ailene is around 81 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 20.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 21.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 995
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 20.4% of all recorded uses (448).
Is Ailene rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +3,966
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,088
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +131
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.95×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 32.1%
- Peak was 1926 (56)
- Years since peak
- 99
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.6% average annual change
Spellings of Ailene
Ailene is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 26.9% against Ailene's 0.17%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Ailene is used
Across 1910–2025, Ailene was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 132,498 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Kentucky1 in 100,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 4Texas1 in 100,000
- 5Alabama1 in —
- 6Illinois1 in —
- 7Missouri1 in —
- 8Oklahoma1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ailene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ailene around the world
Where Ailene ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1952–2002#730in 2002
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ailene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ailene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Ailene
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ailene, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Ailene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.