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Ailynn

Gender
Girl
Say it
EYE-lin
Origin
Irish
US rank, 2025
#5,916 for girls

Ailynn is a girls' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).

What does Ailynn mean?

Irish: spelling of Ailyn, itself a spelling of Aileen, from Irish Eibhlin

Aileen anglicises the Irish Eibhlin, which came to Ireland with the Normans as a form of Aveline.

Meaning borrowed from Ailyn.

Is Ailynn a girl's or a boy's name?

Ailynn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ailynn in the US?

Rank in 2025
5,916th among girls
Babies in 2025
20 about 1 in 80,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 12% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Ailynn, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,840th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 43 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Ailynn than any year since 2008.

Half of all the girls named Ailynn in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 189 girls in the US were given Ailynn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,088, up from #5,916 for this spelling alone.

1998Busiest: 43 in 20152025
Ailynn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202520#5,916
202430#4,558
202331#4,451
202233#4,293
202127#4,829
202037#3,840
201925#5,161
201830#4,560
201741#3,696
201633#4,344
201543#3,595
201429#4,766
201325#5,315
201238#3,987
201130#4,680
201035#4,179
200926#5,377
200819#6,796
20077#13,918
200612#9,282
200513#8,325
20049#10,684
20037#12,401
20028#11,102
20010–
20008#10,738
19995#14,403
19986#12,420

Names like Ailynn

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Ailynn

Names related to Ailynn

More Irish names

Every Irish name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Ailynn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ailynn, updated 20 October 2026.