Ainsley
#483 for girls in 2025, 621 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 98.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 974 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 20,470since 1961
Ainsley over time
Rank among girls' names. Ainsley has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #483 | 621 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #704 | 399 | — | |
| 2023 | #598 | 498 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #507 | 622 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #364 | 845 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #355 | 872 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #478 | 654 | — | |
| 2018 | #399 | 774 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #352 | 902 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #344 | 970 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #338 | 967 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #337 | 1,001 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #332 | 974 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #341 | 930 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #363 | 891 | #5,945 | 14 |
| 2010 | #355 | 898 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #412 | 772 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #443 | 719 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #458 | 704 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #456 | 693 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #440 | 691 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #399 | 764 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #437 | 686 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #454 | 636 | #6,522 | 10 |
| 2001 | #483 | 578 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #1,481 | 124 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #1,548 | 109 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,508 | 112 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #1,899 | 77 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #1,792 | 82 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #1,920 | 72 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #2,188 | 61 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #2,033 | 68 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #1,908 | 73 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,857 | 76 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,733 | 84 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #1,804 | 74 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #1,839 | 67 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #2,309 | 46 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #2,512 | 39 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #3,084 | 29 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #3,726 | 21 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,242 | 25 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #3,530 | 23 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #4,344 | 17 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #4,420 | 16 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #4,404 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
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| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
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| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ainsley! It came in at #5,309, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ainsley is popular in 1991
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maine#212 · 1 in 1,202
- Louisiana#699 · 1 in 5,010
- Florida#1,036 · 1 in 9,545
- Texas#1,851 · 1 in 22,734
- California#3,202 · 1 in 52,305
Best ever in a state: #84 in Vermont, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | #212 | 5 | 1 in 1,202 |
| Louisiana | #699 | 5 | 1 in 5,010 |
| Florida | #1,036 | 8 | 1 in 9,545 |
| Texas | #1,851 | 6 | 1 in 22,734 |
| California | #3,202 | 5 | 1 in 52,305 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ainsley
- 221 spots since 2024 (#704 → #483)
- 128 spots since 2020 (#355 → #483)
- 145 spots since 2015 (#338 → #483)
- Biggest jump: 998 spots in 2001 (#1,481 → #483)
- Biggest drop: 143 spots in 2022 (#364 → #507)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2013 at #332 (974 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 2001–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,785 girls born in 2014 were named Ainsley (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,588 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- Its best rank, #332 in 2013, was only 1 in 1,802 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.8% of all girls named Ainsley (8,961) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 17 | #5,309 (1961) | #6,440 |
| 1970s | 99 | #4,420 (1979) | #5,909 |
| 1980s | 355 | #1,804 (1989) | #3,137 |
| 1990s | 814 | #1,508 (1998) | #1,839 |
| 2000s | 6,367 | #399 (2004) | #546 |
| 2010s | 8,961 | #332 (2013) | #364 |
| 2020s | 3,857 | #355 (2020) | #502 |
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.
Ainsley in 1991
Top girls' names in 1991
More about 1991
girls
1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 24,671 of them was named Ainsley, which outranked 88.0% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,832Soledad77
- #1,832Tawni77
- #1,832Taylar77
- #1,857Ainsley76
- #1,857Amethyst76
- #1,857Anel76
- #1,857Arely76
- #1,877Channing75
- #1,877Jacquline75
- #1,877Jaymee75
Tied with 19 names at #1,857; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.