Ailen
Ailen was given to 86 girls in 2025, #2,154 among girls’ names; 691 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ailen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ailen?
#2,154 among girls’ names, 2025
Ailen rose from #7,631 in 2015 to #2,154 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 53.5 per million.
105 babies in 2022, the peak
Ailen peaked in 2022, when 105 girls were given it, #1,907 among girls’ names. The 86 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 | #2,154 | 53.5 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,395 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,674 | 40.5 |
| 2022 | 105 | #1,907 | 64.0 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,180 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,933 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,797 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,890 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,553 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,158 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,631 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,127 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,154 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,643 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,126 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,386 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,463 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,743 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,712 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,251 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,145 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,785 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,056 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,210 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,957 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,165 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,441 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,161 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,854 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,981 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ailen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ailen has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 30 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ailen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ailen, and how old are they?
An estimated 686 Americans named Ailen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 655 people named Ailen (612 women and girls, 43 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 355 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 72,707 babies since 1880, Ailen is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 86 of their 1,981 babies (4.3%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ailen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ailen and names like it
- Compare Ailen and AileenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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