Ailee — #3764 US girls' name
849 babies named Ailee in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 79% of names given to girls today.
47% of everyone ever named Ailee was born in this single decade.
56 babies were named Ailee in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ailee
The Social Security Administration has registered 849 babies named Ailee between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ailee currently holds the #3764 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 56 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ailee performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 396 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ailee shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 102 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Ailee in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ailee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 849 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Ailee at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ailee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1974
- Peak year (2022)
- 56
- Annual births at peak — across 51 years of records
Currently ranks #3764 among girls.
849 total births across 51 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 56 births in a single year.
Ailee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 396 births that decade — 47% of Ailee's all-time total
Ailee decade highlights
- Peak decade 396 births
- Runner-up 221 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Ailee's strongest decade
396 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
Ailee by state
Where Ailee concentrates geographically — total births since 1974
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 102 | 12.0% |
| #2 | Texas | | 32 | 3.8% |
| #3 | Florida | | 11 | 1.3% |
| #4 | Massachusetts | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #5 | New York | | 5 | 0.6% |
102 of 849 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 12.0% of nationwide
- Texas 3.8% of nationwide
- Florida 1.3% of nationwide
- Massachusetts 0.6% of nationwide
- New York 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 12.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1974–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.