Ayleen
Ayleen was given to 313 girls in 2025, #863 among girls’ names; 7,260 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,150 Americans named Ayleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ayleen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ayleen is “a female given name.”
Rare spelling variant of Eileen.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ayleen?
#863 among girls’ names, 2025
Ayleen fell from #818 in 2015 to #863 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born held at 0.19 per 1,000.
379 babies in 2012, the peak
Ayleen peaked in 2012, when 379 girls were given it, #730 among girls’ names. The 313 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 313 | #863 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 329 | #830 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 289 | #918 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 335 | #837 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 284 | #935 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 262 | #972 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 288 | #920 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 288 | #929 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 335 | #813 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 361 | #788 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 343 | #818 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 333 | #831 | 0.19 |
| 2013 | 359 | #756 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 379 | #730 | 0.22 |
| 2011 | 356 | #767 | 0.20 |
| 2010 | 313 | #860 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 273 | #973 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 249 | #1,050 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 222 | #1,154 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 147 | #1,496 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 166 | #1,325 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 125 | #1,577 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,948 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,642 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 100 | #1,777 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 106 | #1,658 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 107 | #1,572 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 100 | #1,618 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 122 | #1,389 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,948 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,844 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,143 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,547 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,559 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,408 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,903 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,774 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,484 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,948 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,813 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,115 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,620 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,341 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,035 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,692 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,488 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,660 | under 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,827 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,230 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ayleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ayleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ayleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayleen, and how old are they?
7,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,260 Americans ever recorded as Ayleen. The median Ayleen alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 4,231 people named Ayleen (4,223 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,427 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 111 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,940 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,090 |
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 Ayleen born?
The states with the most babies named Ayleen are Texas, California and New York, with 66% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 81 | #415 | 2.4× |
| California | 73 | #460 | 2.0× |
| New York | 20 | #796 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 17 | #576 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 11 | #587 | 2.4× |
| Georgia | 11 | #861 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,340 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #786 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,072 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,027 | 0.1× |
Where Ayleen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ayleen is most over-represented in Texas: since 1913 it was given 2.4 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 Ayleen 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 69,581 babies since 1880, Ayleen is the third most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 313 of their 1,726 babies (18%), again the third most given.
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 Ayleen
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 Ayleen and names like it
- Compare Ayleen and AileenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAyleen peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayleen since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Ayleen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ayleen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.