girl's name

Ailis

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 5
  • Births on record 613

Northern Ireland

#337

2001 births

Ailis is a girl's name. In 2022 it was given to 7 babies in the United States. It was given to fewer than five babies in the most recent year of published US data.

  • Peaked in 2017, when 22 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1990.

Ailis over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1990s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2022, not a full ten years.

97
'90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Ailis by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1990s 26
2000s 82
2010s 97
2020s (to 2022) 23

How popular is Ailis?

In 2022, Ailis was given to 7 babies in the United States. It was given to fewer than five babies in the most recent year of published US data.

Where Ailis is used

Northern Ireland #337 4 in 2001
Ireland as Ailís #884 3 in 2023
Scotland #957 3 in 2022
Canada #4,019 5 in 2019
England & Wales #5,572 4 in 2022
France as Aïlis #6,056 5 in 2015
United States #13,399 7 in 2022

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Ailis is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Ailís Ailís is a rare spelling of Ailis, written with a fada and recorded 15 times, mostly in Ireland. 15
Aïlis Aïlis is a rare spelling of Ailis, written with a diaeresis and recorded about 5 times, mostly in France. 5

Names that peaked alongside Ailis

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Ailis also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Ailis over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Ailis in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Ailís

Sibling names for Ailis

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Ailis — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Ailis

How popular is the name Ailis?

In 2022, Ailis was given to 7 babies in the United States. It was given to fewer than five babies in the most recent year of published US data.

Is Ailis a girl's or a boy's name?

Ailis is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Ailis most popular?

Ailis peaked in 2017, when 22 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.