Fun Facts About the Name Aylee
- 524 babies named Aylee: U.S. records list 524 babies given the name Aylee from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Aylee Mean?
Aylee is a rare English spelling of the name usually identified as Ailie or Ailee, a Scottish pet form of Aileen. Aileen is the anglicized form of Irish Eibhlín (also written Aibhilín), which entered Ireland with the Normans as a diminutive of Aveline, itself a diminutive of Ava. The Germanic root behind Ava and Aveline is not securely explained, so the literal sense of the whole chain is uncertain.
Aileen was also used in Ireland and Gaelic Scotland as a counterpart of Helen and Ellen, since Eibhlín sounded close to those names. Through that pairing, Aileen and its short forms are often glossed as "light" or "bright," but that reading is a customary association rather than the original word meaning.
Aylee Name History & Origins
Aylee has no long record of its own; it is an English respelling of a name pronounced AY-lee. The best-attested source is Ailie, the Scottish short form of Aileen, which traveled with Aileen into wider English use. The spelling with Ay- is a phonetic respelling rather than a historical form.
The Scottish Gaelic name Eilidh, pronounced the same way, is a different name in origin and is treated as the Gaelic equivalent of Helen. Because Ailie and Eilidh sound alike, spellings such as Aylee and Ailee serve for either, which leaves the name's derivation ambiguous rather than traceable to a single source.
How Popular is the Name Aylee?
Aylee has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2021. Its best rank was #3,114 in 2021.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,259 | 24 | 0.0015% |
| 2024 | #5,802 | 21 | 0.0013% |
| 2023 | #5,406 | 23 | 0.0014% |
| 2022 | #4,600 | 30 | 0.0018% |
| 2021 | #3,114 | 52 | 0.0032% |
| 2020 | #7,271 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2019 | #4,024 | 36 | 0.0021% |
| 2018 | #3,931 | 37 | 0.0022% |
| 2017 | #5,385 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 2016 | #5,476 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 2015 | #4,312 | 33 | 0.0018% |
| 2014 | #5,045 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 2013 | #6,041 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2012 | #6,632 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2011 | #6,176 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2010 | #5,444 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2009 | #7,731 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2008 | #6,590 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2007 | #8,592 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2006 | #7,928 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2005 | #10,230 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2004 | #12,938 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2003 | #16,098 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2000 | #15,341 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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