Ailene
Ailene was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,330 among girls’ names; 2,197 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Ailene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 18 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ailene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ailene?
#6,330 among girls’ names, 2025
Ailene rose from #6,461 in 2015 to #6,330 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.6 to 11.2 per million.
56 babies in 1926, the peak
Ailene peaked in 1926, when 56 girls were given it, #997 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,330 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,296 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,209 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,691 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,534 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,418 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,494 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,576 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,717 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,406 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,461 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,724 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,258 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,118 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,063 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,387 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,541 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,271 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,811 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,713 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,701 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,949 | 14.2 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,414 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,672 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,322 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,523 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,034 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,955 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,484 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,395 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,525 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,454 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,056 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,491 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 10 | #7,986 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,503 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,381 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,254 | 3.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,754 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,566 | 4.6 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,714 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,375 | 5.9 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,796 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,065 | 4.4 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,663 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,906 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,177 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,259 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,563 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,545 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,763 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,476 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,149 | 4.9 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,040 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,263 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,245 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,801 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,534 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,546 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,369 | 12.4 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,980 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,746 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,932 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,911 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,376 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,239 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,954 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,410 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,937 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,910 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,622 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,255 | 11.2 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,637 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,228 | 11.5 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,745 | 17.6 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,198 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,040 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,537 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,018 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,636 | 20.1 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,545 | 21.9 |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,438 | 24.5 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,452 | 24.4 |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,187 | 34.6 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,483 | 23.8 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,698 | 19.2 |
| 1933 | 38 | #1,140 | 37.7 |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,237 | 31.9 |
| 1931 | 42 | #1,092 | 39.4 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,347 | 28.4 |
| 1929 | 39 | #1,195 | 34.9 |
| 1928 | 40 | #1,210 | 34.7 |
| 1927 | 50 | #1,079 | 41.9 |
| 1926 | 56 | #997 | 47.2 |
| 1925 | 49 | #1,089 | 40.3 |
| 1924 | 51 | #1,096 | 40.8 |
| 1923 | 43 | #1,175 | 35.6 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,309 | 30.0 |
| 1921 | 42 | #1,184 | 34.1 |
| 1920 | 42 | #1,172 | 35.0 |
| 1919 | 37 | #1,244 | 32.7 |
| 1918 | 38 | #1,214 | 32.8 |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,205 | 33.3 |
| 1916 | 39 | #1,127 | 37.3 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,800 | 18.3 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,480 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,465 | 25.6 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,981 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,793 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,402 | 12.6 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,959 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,204 | 35.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,639 | 22.0 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,229 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,932 | 17.1 |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,077 | 42.0 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,933 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ailene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ailene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ailene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ailene, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 50% of the 2,197 Americans ever recorded as Ailene. The median Ailene alive today is 29 years old; half are between 18 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 1,428 people named Ailene (1,425 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,186 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 119 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 210 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 111 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 106 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 391 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 163 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Ailene born?
The states with the most babies named Ailene are California, Texas and North Carolina, with 82% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 181 | #3,116 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 111 | #3,301 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 56 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Kentucky | 34 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 8 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Ailene is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ailene is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ailene with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 71,588 babies since 1880, Ailene is the seventh most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 9,443 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Ailene
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 Ailene and names like it
- Compare Ailene and AlenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sAilene peaked in 1926.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ailene since 1910.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Ailene.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ailene alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.