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Ailis

Girls' name

Form of Alice

Ailis has been given to 228 babies in the U.S. since 1990. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2017, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Ailis, 2022

1 in 484,000

Ailis over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ailis: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Alice

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ailis means

Ailis is a form of Alice.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ailis is used in Scottish Gaelic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈa.lɪʃ/ for Ailis.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Ailis is a form of Alice. Alice has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alice.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Scottish Gaelic, Ailis is pronounced /ˈalɪʃ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 228 girls were recorded with the name Ailis between 1990 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2017; its best national rank was #5,661 in 2017.

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 Ailis?

Ailis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,262 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ailis 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 2022 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 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ailis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ailiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ailis was born before 2010 — so the typical Ailis is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
228
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (97).

Is Ailis 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2017 (22)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,661
2017

Spellings of Ailis

Ailis is not the most common spelling — Iris is, with 26.5% against Ailis's 0.06%.

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 Ailis is used

Across 1910–2025, Ailis was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Ailis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ailis around the world

Where Ailis 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
    1996–2022
    #4,646
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    1991–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2001
    #293
    in 2001
  • Ireland
    1964–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    1987–2015
    #7,784
    in 2015
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1945–1998
    #710
    in 1998

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

Ailis by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,661
2017
Peak year
2017
22 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
228
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ailis

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

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Sibling names for Ailis

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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