Meaning not yet researched.
Ailee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,956 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,956 in 2022; #4,883 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ailee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,883 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,956.
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Ailee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,956 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 56 (2022).
In 2025, 27 US girls were named Ailee, making it the 4,883rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,124 places from #3,759 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 40 girls named Ailee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,956, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 56. For comparison, it was #3,211 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ailee in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 876 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 396 babies named Ailee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 418 US girls were named Ailee; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 59,528 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Allie (56,372 babies since 1880), Alea (4,085 babies since 1880), Allee (1,192 babies since 1880) and Ailey (969 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ailee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,883 | — | — |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,759 | — | — |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,459 | — | — |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,956 | — | — |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,038 | — | — |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,681 | — | — |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,166 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,239 | — | — |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,053 | — | — |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,231 | — | — |
| 2015 | 51 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,659 | — | — |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,781 | — | — |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,586 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,918 | — | — |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,399 | — | — |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,897 | — | — |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,438 | — | — |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,100 | — | — |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,879 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,537 | — | — |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,210 | — | — |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,891 | — | — |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,449 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,553 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,589 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,839 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,149 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,150 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,600 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,610 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,795 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).