Ainsley

Where Ainsley comes from

Habitational surname for someone from Annesley, Nottinghamshire or Ansley, Warwickshire, both from Old English anne (“alone, solitary”) or ānsetl (“hermitage”) + lēah (“woodland, clearing”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ainsley
  • From a surname
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Ainsley through the years
  1. 1957
    Ainsley Harriott born
    British cook, television personality, author
  2. 1961
    First appearance
    #5,309 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1975
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  4. 1997
    Ainsley Maitland-Niles born
    English association football player
  5. 2013
    Peak, #332
    974 babies named Ainsley, its best rank.
  6. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #704.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Ainsley Maitland-Niles · English association football player, born 1997
  • Ainsley Harriott · British cook, television personality, author, born 1957
  • Ainsley Bennett · British sprinter, born 1954
  • Ainsley Earhardt · American television host and author, born 1976
  • Ainsley Thorpe · New Zealand triathlete, born 1998

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.