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Ailie

#13,254 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Eilidh

Ailie has been given to 382 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #13,254 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Ailie, 2025

1 in 553,000

Ailie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ailie: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Eilidh

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ailie means

Ailie is a form of Eilidh.

Origin, language, and formation

Ailie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eilidh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 382 girls were recorded with the name Ailie between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2012; its best national rank was #1,719 in 1912.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,503 in 2020 to #13,254 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,869 in 2015 to #13,254 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ailie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,254
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ailie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ailie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ailies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ailie was born before 2004 — so the typical Ailie is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
247
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Choose a decade

2000s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Ailie 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
+2,102
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+249
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,385
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.6%
Peak was 2012 (19)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,719
1912

Spellings of Ailie

Ailie is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 18.2% against Ailie's 0.01%.

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 Ailie is used

Across 1910–2025, Ailie was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 47,769 across all states with data.

22 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 50,000

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. Ailie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ailie around the world

Where Ailie 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2021
    #4,634
    in 2021
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #324
    in 2025
  • France
    2025–2025
    #7,430
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2020
    #2,936
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1960–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ailie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,254
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 249
Best rank ever
#1,719
1912
Peak year
2012
19 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
382
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Ailie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ailie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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