Aisling
Aisling was given to 39 girls in 2025, #3,781 among girls’ names; 1,533 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,510 Americans named Aisling and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aisling by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aisling mean?
Wiktionary, Irish section
Aisling is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “dream, vision” (aisling).
From aisling (“dream, vision”), taken up as a name in the nineteenth century.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Irish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aisling?
#3,781 among girls’ names, 2025
Aisling fell from #3,346 in 2015 to #3,781 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.9 to 24.3 per million.
61 babies in 2002, the peak
Aisling peaked in 2002, when 61 girls were given it, #2,552 among girls’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,781 | 24.3 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,561 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,046 | 22.4 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,366 | 28.7 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,439 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,453 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,073 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,240 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,921 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,281 | 27.7 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #3,346 | 26.9 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,651 | 23.5 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,405 | 26.2 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,466 | 26.1 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,132 | 30.1 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,624 | 24.2 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,108 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,009 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,723 | 22.4 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,686 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,507 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,489 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,186 | 25.2 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,552 | 33.9 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,938 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,661 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,145 | 23.1 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,971 | 24.3 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,222 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,146 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,487 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,251 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,873 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,861 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,492 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,127 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,667 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,888 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,329 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,029 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,282 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,319 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,949 | 11.4 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,805 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,109 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,763 | 3.3 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,438 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,300 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aisling a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aisling has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aisling: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aisling, and how old are they?
1,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,533 Americans ever recorded as Aisling. The median Aisling alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,444 people named Aisling (1,438 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,299 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 327 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 662 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 504 |
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 Aisling born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,499 | 0.8× |
| New York | 7 | #1,659 | 1.5× |
Where Aisling is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aisling is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1972 it was given 3.4 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 Aisling with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aisling
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 Aisling and names like it
- Compare Aisling and KallieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAisling peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aisling since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aisling: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Aisling.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aisling alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.