Meaning not yet researched.
Ainsley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 621 in 2025. Its best rank was #332 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #332 in 2013; #483 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Ainsley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#483 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #332.
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Ainsley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 621 girls in 2025. Peak: #332 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 1,001 (2014).
In 2025, 621 US girls were named Ainsley, making it the 483rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 221 places from #704 in 2024. That is 222 more than the 399 girls named Ainsley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #332, reached in 2013. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,001, in 2014. For comparison, it was #338 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ainsley in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 5 babies. In all, 20,896 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 9,066 babies named Ainsley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,157 US girls were named Ainsley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 970. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,588 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ainsley ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #154 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ansley (12,168 babies since 1880), Ainslee (1,583 babies since 1880), Anslee (1,402 babies since 1880) and Annsley (917 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ainslie, Annslee and Aynsley are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Ainslie (625), Annslee (535), Aynsley (441), Aynslee (236), Anzley (154), Ainzley (50), Anslei (34), Ainzlee (34), Anslea (32), Ainsly (5), Annzley (5), Ainslei (5).
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 Ainsley 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 13 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 7 | #154 | #159 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #162 | #130 |
| Nebraska | 11 | #200 | #200 |
| West Virginia | 8 | #204 | #261 |
| Idaho | 9 | #245 | #315 |
| Indiana | 27 | #258 | #220 |
| Kansas | 12 | #259 | #164 |
| Louisiana | 15 | #296 | #227 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #301 | #267 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #302 | #226 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #310 | #369 |
| Minnesota | 17 | #328 | #381 |
| Michigan | 27 | #330 | #282 |
| Illinois | 31 | #337 | #334 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #350 | #361 |
| Kentucky | 11 | #384 | #291 |
| Missouri | 15 | #386 | #228 |
| Virginia | 20 | #396 | #192 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #399 | #135 |
| Colorado | 14 | #406 | #193 |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #428 | #290 |
| Ohio | 26 | #430 | #357 |
| Oregon | 8 | #431 | #293 |
| Iowa | 6 | #495 | #220 |
| Tennessee | 15 | #497 | #272 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #520 | #215 |
| Utah | 7 | #541 | #277 |
| Florida | 33 | #542 | #448 |
| Texas | 56 | #559 | #349 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #560 | #243 |
| Alabama | 8 | #575 | — |
| Maryland | 8 | #601 | #453 |
| Washington | 10 | #621 | #392 |
| California | 42 | #731 | #651 |
| New York | 22 | #732 | #589 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #778 | #297 |
| Arizona | 7 | #818 | #655 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,040 | #714 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 621 | #483 | 8 | #8,935 |
| 2024 | 399 | #704 | — | — |
| 2023 | 498 | #598 | 9 | #8,285 |
| 2022 | 622 | #507 | 11 | #7,281 |
| 2021 | 845 | #364 | 9 | #8,188 |
| 2020 | 872 | #355 | 10 | #7,515 |
| 2019 | 654 | #478 | — | — |
| 2018 | 774 | #399 | 6 | #10,806 |
| 2017 | 902 | #352 | 11 | #7,107 |
| 2016 | 970 | #344 | 14 | #6,059 |
| 2015 | 967 | #338 | 17 | #5,296 |
| 2014 | 1,001 | #337 | 12 | #6,642 |
| 2013 | 974 | #332 | 11 | #7,037 |
| 2012 | 930 | #341 | 15 | #5,726 |
| 2011 | 891 | #363 | 14 | #5,956 |
| 2010 | 898 | #355 | 5 | #12,288 |
| 2009 | 772 | #412 | 8 | #9,010 |
| 2008 | 719 | #443 | 15 | #5,771 |
| 2007 | 704 | #458 | 7 | #9,807 |
| 2006 | 693 | #456 | 8 | #8,749 |
| 2005 | 691 | #440 | 7 | #9,138 |
| 2004 | 764 | #399 | 14 | #5,498 |
| 2003 | 686 | #437 | 11 | #6,265 |
| 2002 | 636 | #454 | 10 | #6,536 |
| 2001 | 578 | #483 | 12 | #5,676 |
| 2000 | 124 | #1,481 | 5 | #10,397 |
| 1999 | 109 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1998 | 112 | #1,508 | 9 | #6,330 |
| 1997 | 77 | #1,899 | 7 | #7,294 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,792 | 8 | #6,510 |
| 1995 | 72 | #1,920 | 6 | #7,815 |
| 1994 | 61 | #2,188 | 5 | #8,828 |
| 1993 | 68 | #2,033 | 6 | #7,649 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,735 | 7 | #6,425 |
| 1989 | 74 | #1,804 | 6 | #6,955 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,839 | 9 | #4,791 |
| 1987 | 46 | #2,309 | 13 | #3,526 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,512 | 6 | #5,941 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,085 | 6 | #5,795 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,727 | — | — |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,244 | 9 | #4,143 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,531 | 7 | #5,017 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,345 | 6 | #5,486 |
| 1980 | 14 | #4,979 | 7 | #4,946 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,424 | 7 | #4,856 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,934 | — | — |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,214 | 8 | #4,169 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,604 | 7 | #4,432 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,164 | 5 | #5,476 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,797 | 6 | #4,643 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,195 | — | — |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,112 | 6 | #4,449 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,339 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,371 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,480 | 5 | #4,409 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,546 | — | — |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,648 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,312 | — | — |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,741 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,693 |
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).