Ailean

Last seen for girls in 1929 at #4,053

Peak · girls
1929 · 6 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
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of 146 years
Total births · girls
22
since 1923

Ailean over time

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Rank among girls' names. Ailean has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

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First appearance
1923

The first year at least five girls were named Ailean! It came in at #4,967, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1923–1927, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Ailean is popular in 1928

No state had 5 or more girls named Ailean in 1928, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ailean
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1929
Rise & fade · girls
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1923
  • Peaked 1929 at #4,053 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1930, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 186,094
  • Highest: 1 in 186,094 girls born in 1929 were named Ailean (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 100.0% of all girls named Ailean (22) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s22#4,053 (1929)#4,505

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ailean in 1928

girls
#4,195
6 births · 1 in 192,220 girls

Top girls' names in 1928

  1. #1Mary66,871
  2. #2Betty36,083
  3. #3Dorothy33,733
  4. #4Helen22,937
  5. #5Margaret20,295
  6. #6Ruth17,859
  7. #7Doris16,575
  8. #8Barbara14,872
  9. #9Virginia14,500
  10. #10Shirley14,215
  11. #4,195Ailean6
More about 1928

girls

1,153,318 girls got a published name in 1928; 1 in 192,220 of them was named Ailean, which outranked 22.9% of the 5,440 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ailean
  1. #3,743Zenola7
  2. #3,743Zenora7
  3. #3,743Zoa7
  4. #4,195Ailean6
  5. #4,195Ader6
  6. #4,195Adina6
  7. #4,195Agusta6
  8. #4,725Adamae5
  9. #4,725Adelma5
  10. #4,725Adlena5

Tied with 529 names at #4,195; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1927
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,165Jeanine#3,053 → #888
  2. ↑ 1,368Joline#2,256 → #888
  3. ↑ 1,101Lorelei#2,095 → #994
  4. ↑ 1,063Jeannine#1,384 → #321
  5. ↑ 859Romona#1,456 → #597
Fallers
  1. ↓ 860Valencia#924 → #1,784
  2. ↓ 547Kazuko#955 → #1,502
  3. ↓ 386Matilde#924 → #1,310
  4. ↓ 368Glendora#747 → #1,115
  5. ↓ 366Hilma#924 → #1,290

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1928 →