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Eylin

Gender
Girl
Say it
eye-LEEN
Origin
Irish
US rank, 2025
#5,409 for girls

Eylin is a girls' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,409th for girls in the US (23 babies).

What does Eylin mean?

Irish: spelling of Eyleen, itself a variant of Eileen, from Irish Eibhlin

A respelling of Eileen, the anglicised form of Irish Eibhlin, which came from the Norman name Aveline.

Meaning borrowed from Eyleen.

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

Eylin is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 23 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Eylin in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,409among girls
Babies in 2025
23about 1 in 70,000 girls
Five-year trend
Risingup 55% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 23 girls in the US were named Eylin, making it the 5,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. It first appears in the records in 1996.

2025 had the most girls named Eylin of any year since it first appeared, in 1996.

Half of all the girls named Eylin in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 538 girls in the US were given Eylin or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #555, up from #5,409 for this spelling alone.

1996Busiest: 23 in 20252025
Eylin in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202523#5,409
202418#6,391
202318#6,404
202213#8,027
202118#6,409
202014#7,554
201913#8,134
201811#9,146
201710#9,939
201612#8,872
201513#8,443
20149#10,949
201311#9,607
201211#9,706
20118#12,146
201012#9,227
200910#10,675
20086#15,399
20077#13,918
20067#13,601
20050–
20040–
20030–
20026#13,589
20010–
20000–
19990–
19988#10,116
19978#9,797
19967#10,562

Names like Eylin

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

Other spellings of Eylin

Names related to Eylin

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, “Eylin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/eylin, updated 20 October 2026.