Meaning not yet researched.
Ailyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 169 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,044 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,044 in 2012; #1,318 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ailyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,318 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,044.
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Ailyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 169 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,044 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 241 (2012).
In 2025, 169 US girls were named Ailyn, making it the 1,318th most common girls’ name of the year, up 66 places from #1,384 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 163 girls named Ailyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,044, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 241. For comparison, it was #1,095 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ailyn in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 4,490 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,961 babies named Ailyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,661 US girls were named Ailyn; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 188. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,510 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ailyn ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #705 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alan (364,389 babies since 1880), Allen (273,662 babies since 1880), Allan (96,711 babies since 1880) and Aileen (37,642 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 Ailyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 7 | #705 | #882 |
| California | 35 | #830 | #629 |
| Texas | 32 | #901 | #659 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,038 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,174 | #789 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,184 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,215 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,244 | #1,172 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,397 | #1,410 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,438 | #1,482 |
| New York | 6 | #1,839 | #1,493 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 169 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 2024 | 163 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 2023 | 131 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 2022 | 182 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 2021 | 144 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 2020 | 185 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 2019 | 188 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 2017 | 172 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 2016 | 184 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 2015 | 236 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 2014 | 207 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 2013 | 206 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 2012 | 241 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 2011 | 189 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 2010 | 195 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 2009 | 207 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 2008 | 221 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 2007 | 179 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 2006 | 137 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 2005 | 115 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,068 | — | — |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 2002 | 85 | #2,028 | — | — |
| 2001 | 92 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 2000 | 75 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 1999 | 84 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,190 | — | — |
| 1997 | 65 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,184 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,775 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,472 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,760 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,388 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,341 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,696 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,156 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,075 | — | — |
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).