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Ayleen vs Aylssa

American parents have registered 7,260 Ayleens since 1880, against 276 Aylssas. Ayleen is still ahead, with 313 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ayleen Aylssa

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 49 years in which either name was published, Ayleen for 40 years and Aylssa for 9 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Ayleen Aylssa
Total US births 7,260276
Most in one year 37920
Babies in 2025 313under 5
Estimated living today 7,200270
Median age today 1129
Peak year 20121990
Best rank 730th girls4,694th girls
Rank in 2025 862ndunranked
First recorded 19131987
Girls / boys 7,260 / 0276 / 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 Aylssas alive today are over 29; half the Ayleens are over 11. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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