Ayelen
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-yeh-LEN
- US rank, 2025
- #3,100 for girls
Ayelen is a girls' name, meaning “joy”. In 2025 it ranked 3,100th for girls in the US (52 babies).
What does Ayelen mean?
Mapudungun, the Mapuche language of Chile and Argentina
“joy”
A Mapuche name popular in Argentina and Chile, usually written Ayelén in Spanish.
Is Ayelen a girl's or a boy's name?
Ayelen is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 52 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ayelen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,100th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 52 about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 155% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 52 girls in the US were named Ayelen, making it the 3,100th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 64 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Ayelen in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 58 girls in the US were given Ayelen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,374, up from #3,100 for this spelling alone.
- Ayelen 52
- Ayelin 6
Ayelen in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #3,100 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,081 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,917 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,450 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,189 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,707 |
| 2015 | 64 | #2,736 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,920 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,154 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,039 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,221 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,074 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,939 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,419 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,523 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,232 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,240 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
Nicknames for Ayelen
- Aye
Names like Ayelen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan, Adalynn, Brynlee, Braelynn, Eowyn, Eden, Kennedy, Rowan, Ayleen, Brynn, Aylen, Brooklyn
Names related to Ayelen
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, “Ayelen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ayelen, updated 20 October 2026.