Aili

Where Aili comes from

Aili hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1901
    First appearance
    #1,679 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1909
    Peak, #868
    22 babies named Aili — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1924
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,002.
  4. 1941
    Aili Vint born
    Estonian graphic designer and painter
  5. 1968
    Aili Keskitalo born
    Sami politician from Norway
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Aili Keskitalo · Sami politician from Norway, born 1968
  • Aili Vint · Estonian graphic designer and painter, born 1941
  • Aili Nenola · Finnish cultural studies scholar, born 1942
  • Aili Jõgi · Estonian resistance fighter and sports shooting coach, 1931–2017
  • Aili Konttinen · Finnish author, 1906–1969

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.