Ailee
#4,878 for girls in 2025, 27 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 56 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 876since 1974
Ailee over time
Rank among girls' names. Ailee has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,878 | 27 |
| 2024 | #3,758 | 40 |
| 2023 | #4,454 | 31 |
| 2022 | #2,956 | 56 |
| 2021 | #3,037 | 54 |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 |
| 2019 | #4,162 | 34 |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 |
| 2017 | #3,053 | 53 |
| 2016 | #3,229 | 50 |
| 2015 | #3,211 | 51 |
| 2014 | #4,657 | 30 |
| 2013 | #3,778 | 40 |
| 2012 | #3,583 | 44 |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 |
| 2010 | #4,397 | 33 |
| 2009 | #5,891 | 23 |
| 2008 | #5,434 | 26 |
| 2007 | #7,092 | 18 |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 |
| 2004 | #5,208 | 24 |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 |
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| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
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| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ailee! It came in at #8,775, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1992, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ailee is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,472 · 1 in 25,465
- Texas#2,856 · 1 in 27,882
Best ever in a state: #845 in Massachusetts, 2017.
Show every state
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| California | #2,472 | 8 | 1 in 25,465 |
| Texas | #2,856 | 6 | 1 in 27,882 |
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See more about Ailee
- 1,120 spots since 2024 (#3,758 → #4,878)
- 1,202 spots since 2020 (#3,676 → #4,878)
- 1,667 spots since 2015 (#3,211 → #4,878)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2022 at #2,956 (56 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 29,288 girls born in 2022 were named Ailee (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 59,528 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.2% of all girls named Ailee (396) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #8,775 (1974) | #8,775 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 47 | #6,836 (1999) | #9,053 |
| 2000s | 180 | #5,208 (2004) | #7,145 |
| 2010s | 396 | #3,053 (2017) | #3,922 |
| 2020s | 248 | #2,956 (2022) | #3,793 |
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.
Ailee in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 35,440 of them was named Ailee, which outranked 82.9% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,182Wednesday51
- #3,182Zaniah51
- #3,182Zaylah51
- #3,229Ailee50
- #3,229Aashi50
- #3,229Ailany50
- #3,229Alaysha50
- #3,280Aeryn49
- #3,280Aisling49
- #3,280Alea49
Tied with 50 names at #3,229; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.