Ainsley — #706 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Ainsley

The Social Security Administration has registered 19,845 babies named Ainsley between 1961 and 2024, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ainsley currently holds the #706 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 1,001 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ainsley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 8,960 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Ainsley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,787 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Ainsley in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ainsley 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 19,845 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.