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Aisling

#3,781 in 2025Girls' name

Dream, vision

Aisling has been given to 1,533 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #3,781 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Aisling, 2025

1 in 85,000

Aisling over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aisling: meaning, origin, and history

Dream, vision

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aisling means

Aisling means “dream, vision”, associated with aisling.

Origin, language, and formation

Aisling is used in Irish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,533 girls were recorded with the name Aisling between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 2002; its best national rank was #2,552 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,453 in 2020 to #3,781 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,346 in 2015 to #3,781 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 Aisling?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 41,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,781
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aisling 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 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aisling. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aislings were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aisling was born before 2007 — so the typical Aisling is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,533
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (422).

Is Aisling 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
+780
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+672
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−435
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.9%
Peak was 2002 (61)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,552
2002

Spellings of Aisling

Aisling is not the most common spelling — Aislinn is, with 38.5% against Aisling's 10.7%.

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 Aisling is used

Across 1910–2025, Aisling was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 137,138 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Aisling has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aisling around the world

Where Aisling 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
    1996–2025
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1980–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2025
    #334
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1964–2025
    #180
    in 2025
  • France
    1993–2004
    #5,159
    in 2004
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Aisling by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,781
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 672
Best rank ever
#2,552
2002
Peak year
2002
61 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,533
Count in 2025
39

Names similar to Aisling

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

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Sibling names for Aisling

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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