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Ailani vs Ailynn

American parents have registered 7,905 Ailanis since 1880, against 627 Ailynns. Ailani is still ahead, with 1,807 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ailani against Ailynn, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ailani Ailynn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 30 years in which either name was published, Ailani for 29 years and Ailynn for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Ailani Ailynn
Total US births 7,905627
Most in one year 1,80743
Babies in 2025 1,80720
Estimated living today 7,900620
Median age today 310
Peak year 20252015
Best rank 168th girls3,595th girls
Rank in 2025 168th5,917th
First recorded 19961998
Girls / boys 7,899 / 6627 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ailynns alive today are over 10; half the Ailanis are over 3. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ailani and Ailynn.