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Aylah vs Ayleen

American parents have registered 7,260 Ayleens since 1880, against 2,332 Aylahs. Ayleen is still ahead, with 313 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aylah against Ayleen, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aylah Ayleen

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

Ayleen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Aylah had 7 and Ayleen had 8.

Side by side

  Aylah Ayleen
Total US births 2,3327,260
Most in one year 213379
Babies in 2025 170313
Estimated living today 2,3007,200
Median age today 611
Peak year 20212012
Best rank 1,148th girls730th girls
Rank in 2025 1,309th862nd
First recorded 19881913
Girls / boys 2,332 / 07,260 / 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 Ayleens alive today are over 11; half the Aylahs are over 6. That is 5 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 Aylah Ayleen
France 55815
England and Wales 430136
Scotland 527
Ireland 234

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.

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Related comparisons

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