Humanverse

Aislin vs Aisling

American parents have registered 1,533 Aislings since 1880, against 1,379 Aislins. But in 2025 it was Aislin that was commoner, 67 babies to 39.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aislin against Aisling, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aislin Aisling

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 48 years in which either name was published, Aisling for 30 years and Aislin for 18 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Aislin Aisling
Total US births 1,3791,533
Most in one year 8261
Babies in 2025 6739
Estimated living today 1,4001,500
Median age today 1418
Peak year 20132002
Best rank 2,259th girls2,554th girls
Rank in 2025 2,583rd3,780th
First recorded 19931972
Girls / boys 1,379 / 01,533 / 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 Aislings alive today are over 18; half the Aislins are over 14. That is 4 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aislin Aisling
Ireland 312,340
England and Wales 53962
Northern Ireland 3419

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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