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Aysha vs Ayslinn

American parents have registered 3,189 Ayshas since 1880, against 63 Ayslinns. Aysha is still ahead, with 112 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aysha Ayslinn

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

Aysha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1969 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Aysha had 60 and Ayslinn had 12.

Side by side

  Aysha Ayslinn
Total US births 3,18963
Most in one year 15312
Babies in 2025 112under 5
Estimated living today 3,10060
Median age today 226
Peak year 20242016
Best rank 1,441st girls8,875th girls
Rank in 2025 1,796thunranked
First recorded 19692016
Girls / boys 3,189 / 063 / 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 Ayshas alive today are over 22; half the Ayslinns are over 6. That is 16 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: Aysha and Ayslinn.