Ainsleigh
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AYNZ-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #6,324 for girls
Ainsleigh is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “lone clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).
What does Ainsleigh mean?
English: spelling of Ainsley, an English place-name surname
“lone clearing”
A spelling of Ainsley, from English places named with Old English an 'one, lone' and leah 'clearing'.
Is Ainsleigh a girl's or a boy's name?
Ainsleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ainsleigh in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 8 girls.
Ainsleigh in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 1 | #7,346 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 1 | #7,682 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 1 | #7,629 |
| 2014 | 1 | #7,592 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 1 | #7,383 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 1 | #6,340 |
| 2004 | 1 | #6,173 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 2 | #5,211 |
| 1999 | 2 | #5,117 |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
| 1997 | 5 | #2,896 |
| 1996 | 8 | #2,012 |
How popular is Ainsleigh in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,324th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 89,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 3% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Ainsleigh, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 39 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years.
Half of all the girls named Ainsleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 97 girls in the US were given Ainsleigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,732, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.
Ainsleigh in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,245 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,904 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,962 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,625 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,794 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,148 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,693 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,156 |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,841 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,890 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,074 |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,955 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,806 |
| 2010 | 28 | #4,972 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,377 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,738 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,806 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,382 |
| 2005 | 20 | #5,994 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,763 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,414 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,440 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,527 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
Nicknames for Ainsleigh
- Ainsley 11 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Ainsleigh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ocean, Eilidh, Eden, Fiadh, Aoife, Caoimhe, Riley, Keira, Clodagh, Orla, Rowan, Maeve
Other spellings of Ainsleigh
Names related to Ainsleigh
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Ainsleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ainsleigh, updated 20 October 2026.