Aileen

Where Aileen comes from

The dictionaries list Aileen as a given name — a female given name from Irish, variant of Eileen — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Irish
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1926
    Peak, #289
    534 babies named Aileen — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1933
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #426.
  4. 1956
    Aileen Wuornos born
    American serial killer
  5. 1959
    Aileen Baviera born
    Filipino sinologist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish, variant of Eileen.
Namesakes
  • Aileen Wuornos · American serial killer, 1956–2002
  • Aileen Baviera · Filipino sinologist, 1959–2020
  • Aileen Riggin · American diver, swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, 1906–2002
  • Aileen Quinn · American actress, singer and dancer, born 1971
  • Aileen Pringle · American actress, 1895–1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.