Aileen

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Aileen is ranked 718th among girls in 2024 (390 births). Its best rank was 289th, in 1926.

Rank in 2024: #718up 80 from 2023
Births in 2024: 3900.02% of girls
Peak year: 2009685 births
Best rank: #289in 1926
Since 1880: 37,293people given the name

Babies named Aileen, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

37,293 girls have been named Aileen in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 685 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 567 → 718).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 2000s alone account for 16%. It has spent 142 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Aileen
1880s	63
1890s	332
1900s	818
1910s	2,831
1920s	4,648
1930s	2,157
1940s	1,629
1950s	1,956
1960s	2,308
1970s	1,781
1980s	2,356
1990s	3,258
2000s	5,820
2010s	5,354
2020s	1,982

In 2009, its biggest year

Aileen was the 454th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2009 were Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia and Ava. See all of 2009.

Names that rose and fell with Aileen

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.