Meaning not yet researched.
Aileen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 340 in 2025. Its best rank was #289 in 1926.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #289 in 1926; #799 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aileen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#799 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1926, at #289.
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Aileen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 340 girls in 2025. Peak: #289 in 1926 · most girls in one year: 685 (2009).
In 2025, 340 US girls were named Aileen, making it the 799th most common girls’ name of the year, down 79 places from #720 in 2024. That is 51 fewer than the 391 girls named Aileen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #289, reached in 1926. The most girls given the name in a single year was 685, in 2009. For comparison, it was #514 in 2015 and #668 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aileen in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 37,642 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,821 babies named Aileen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,168 US girls were named Aileen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 500. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aileen ranked highest in California in 2025, at #381 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Eileen (190,020 babies since 1880), Allen (273,662 babies since 1880), Ayleen (7,260 babies since 1880) and Ailyn (4,490 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ailynn, Aileene and Ayleene are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Allie and Lena.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ailynn (627), Aileene (392), Ayleene (27), Ayeleen (10).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 86 | #381 | #209 |
| Texas | 83 | #402 | #262 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #557 | #580 |
| Arizona | 10 | #632 | #361 |
| Illinois | 14 | #668 | #421 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #698 | #767 |
| Maryland | 5 | #846 | #633 |
| New York | 18 | #860 | #499 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #876 | #674 |
| Indiana | 6 | #918 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #939 | #957 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #943 | #581 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,054 | #369 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,061 | #636 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,081 | #963 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,215 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,329 | #799 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 340 | #799 | — | — |
| 2024 | 391 | #720 | — | — |
| 2023 | 352 | #799 | — | — |
| 2022 | 407 | #720 | — | — |
| 2021 | 429 | #678 | — | — |
| 2020 | 404 | #696 | — | — |
| 2019 | 452 | #643 | — | — |
| 2018 | 437 | #671 | — | — |
| 2017 | 456 | #648 | — | — |
| 2016 | 500 | #602 | — | — |
| 2015 | 609 | #514 | — | — |
| 2014 | 541 | #567 | — | — |
| 2013 | 479 | #593 | — | — |
| 2012 | 603 | #506 | — | — |
| 2011 | 633 | #467 | 5 | #12,342 |
| 2010 | 645 | #468 | — | — |
| 2009 | 685 | #454 | — | — |
| 2008 | 650 | #486 | — | — |
| 2007 | 645 | #501 | — | — |
| 2006 | 558 | #537 | — | — |
| 2005 | 633 | #483 | — | — |
| 2004 | 568 | #510 | — | — |
| 2003 | 526 | #536 | — | — |
| 2002 | 505 | #546 | — | — |
| 2001 | 550 | #501 | — | — |
| 2000 | 501 | #526 | — | — |
| 1999 | 492 | #518 | — | — |
| 1998 | 525 | #486 | — | — |
| 1997 | 441 | #539 | — | — |
| 1996 | 303 | #703 | — | — |
| 1995 | 235 | #832 | — | — |
| 1994 | 247 | #812 | — | — |
| 1993 | 277 | #749 | — | — |
| 1992 | 254 | #794 | — | — |
| 1991 | 254 | #804 | — | — |
| 1990 | 230 | #855 | — | — |
| 1989 | 238 | #800 | — | — |
| 1988 | 256 | #731 | — | — |
| 1987 | 217 | #805 | — | — |
| 1986 | 252 | #710 | — | — |
| 1985 | 237 | #726 | — | — |
| 1984 | 265 | #660 | — | — |
| 1983 | 254 | #674 | — | — |
| 1982 | 214 | #768 | — | — |
| 1981 | 211 | #773 | — | — |
| 1980 | 212 | #778 | — | — |
| 1979 | 149 | #966 | — | — |
| 1978 | 159 | #901 | — | — |
| 1977 | 152 | #921 | — | — |
| 1976 | 148 | #891 | — | — |
| 1975 | 169 | #809 | — | — |
| 1974 | 190 | #746 | — | — |
| 1973 | 189 | #741 | — | — |
| 1972 | 195 | #726 | — | — |
| 1971 | 192 | #764 | — | — |
| 1970 | 238 | #669 | — | — |
| 1969 | 242 | #635 | — | — |
| 1968 | 210 | #666 | — | — |
| 1967 | 210 | #661 | — | — |
| 1966 | 211 | #668 | — | — |
| 1965 | 254 | #610 | — | — |
| 1964 | 248 | #648 | — | — |
| 1963 | 217 | #685 | — | — |
| 1962 | 245 | #646 | — | — |
| 1961 | 242 | #660 | — | — |
| 1960 | 229 | #670 | — | — |
| 1959 | 215 | #684 | — | — |
| 1958 | 203 | #695 | — | — |
| 1957 | 190 | #725 | — | — |
| 1956 | 179 | #721 | — | — |
| 1955 | 208 | #642 | — | — |
| 1954 | 188 | #681 | — | — |
| 1953 | 218 | #599 | — | — |
| 1952 | 184 | #657 | — | — |
| 1951 | 212 | #591 | — | — |
| 1950 | 160 | #668 | — | — |
| 1949 | 150 | #683 | — | — |
| 1948 | 180 | #616 | — | — |
| 1947 | 199 | #603 | — | — |
| 1946 | 185 | #588 | — | — |
| 1945 | 150 | #596 | — | — |
| 1944 | 166 | #565 | — | — |
| 1943 | 209 | #515 | — | — |
| 1942 | 136 | #642 | — | — |
| 1941 | 118 | #651 | — | — |
| 1940 | 136 | #596 | — | — |
| 1939 | 131 | #583 | — | — |
| 1938 | 144 | #570 | — | — |
| 1937 | 157 | #526 | — | — |
| 1936 | 190 | #466 | — | — |
| 1935 | 174 | #478 | — | — |
| 1934 | 212 | #447 | — | — |
| 1933 | 228 | #426 | — | — |
| 1932 | 292 | #383 | — | — |
| 1931 | 286 | #385 | — | — |
| 1930 | 343 | #361 | — | — |
| 1929 | 356 | #345 | — | — |
| 1928 | 487 | #302 | — | — |
| 1927 | 463 | #309 | — | — |
| 1926 | 534 | #289 | — | — |
| 1925 | 503 | #298 | — | — |
| 1924 | 521 | #291 | — | — |
| 1923 | 420 | #314 | — | — |
| 1922 | 453 | #303 | — | — |
| 1921 | 454 | #305 | — | — |
| 1920 | 457 | #305 | — | — |
| 1919 | 371 | #330 | — | — |
| 1918 | 357 | #346 | — | — |
| 1917 | 365 | #321 | — | — |
| 1916 | 354 | #324 | — | — |
| 1915 | 390 | #293 | — | — |
| 1914 | 298 | #302 | — | — |
| 1913 | 231 | #314 | — | — |
| 1912 | 192 | #326 | — | — |
| 1911 | 150 | #323 | — | — |
| 1910 | 123 | #357 | — | — |
| 1909 | 103 | #357 | — | — |
| 1908 | 99 | #361 | — | — |
| 1907 | 72 | #418 | — | — |
| 1906 | 99 | #336 | — | — |
| 1905 | 67 | #413 | — | — |
| 1904 | 89 | #346 | — | — |
| 1903 | 63 | #400 | — | — |
| 1902 | 86 | #341 | — | — |
| 1901 | 73 | #356 | — | — |
| 1900 | 67 | #407 | — | — |
| 1899 | 49 | #416 | — | — |
| 1898 | 48 | #441 | — | — |
| 1897 | 44 | #440 | — | — |
| 1896 | 37 | #478 | — | — |
| 1895 | 40 | #455 | — | — |
| 1894 | 40 | #442 | — | — |
| 1893 | 29 | #512 | — | — |
| 1892 | 18 | #685 | — | — |
| 1891 | 14 | #727 | — | — |
| 1890 | 13 | #759 | — | — |
| 1889 | 14 | #687 | — | — |
| 1888 | 10 | #837 | — | — |
| 1887 | 8 | #861 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #898 | — | — |
| 1884 | 10 | #686 | — | — |
| 1883 | 8 | #692 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #739 | — | — |
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).