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Aylen vs Aylssa

American parents have registered 1,472 Aylens since 1880, against 276 Aylssas. Aylen is still ahead, with 138 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aylen against Aylssa, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aylen 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 39 years in which either name was published, Aylen for 25 years and Aylssa for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aylen Aylssa
Total US births 1,472276
Most in one year 13820
Babies in 2025 138under 5
Estimated living today 1,500270
Median age today 729
Peak year 20251990
Best rank 1,652nd girls4,694th girls
Rank in 2025 1,652ndunranked
First recorded 19971987
Girls / boys 1,349 / 123276 / 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 Aylens are over 7. That is 22 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: Aylen and Aylssa.