Ailyn
#1,318 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ailyn has been given to 4,490 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #1,318 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 241 recorded.
Babies named Ailyn, 2025
1 in 19,600
Ailyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ailyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 19,600
- 169 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 9,510
- 0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,318
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 13,598 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ailyn 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 13,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ailyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ailyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ailyn was born before 2013 — so the typical Ailyn is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,490
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.7% of all recorded uses (1,961).
Is Ailyn 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
- +66
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −87
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −223
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.72×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 70.1%
- Peak was 2012 (241)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.4% average annual change
Spellings of Ailyn
Ailyn is not the most common spelling — Marilyn is, with 26.4% against Ailyn's 0.32%.
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 Ailyn is used
Across 2016–2025, Ailyn was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 8,380 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
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.
Ailyn around the world
Where Ailyn 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 & Wales2021–2025#4,867in 2025
- France2009–2025#6,671in 2025
- Canada2022–2022#2,896in 2022
- South Australia1993–1993#712in 1993
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.
Ailyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ailyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Ailyn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ailyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Ailyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.