Ailsa
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293
- Peak · girls
- 1926 · 10 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 538since 1918
Ailsa over time
Rank among girls' names. Ailsa has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 |
| 2010 | #6,641 | 19 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 |
| 2007 | #9,007 | 13 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
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| 1926 | #3,046 | 10 |
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| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 |
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| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 |
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| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ailsa! It came in at #4,809, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1921, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Ailsa
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1926 at #3,046 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1927, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 93,558 girls born in 2010 were named Ailsa (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 324,038 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,046 in 1926, was only 1 in 118,540 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.9% of all girls named Ailsa (123) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,809 (1918) | #4,809 |
| 1920s | 21 | #3,046 (1926) | #4,155 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 6 | #6,042 (1967) | #6,042 |
| 1970s | 80 | #4,534 (1971) | #6,198 |
| 1980s | 45 | #6,612 (1986) | #8,808 |
| 1990s | 112 | #6,484 (1999) | #7,664 |
| 2000s | 123 | #6,055 (2003) | #9,328 |
| 2010s | 121 | #6,641 (2010) | #9,326 |
| 2020s | 25 | #9,562 (2021) | #13,784 |
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.
Ailsa in 1918
Top girls' names in 1918
More about 1918
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1,157,631 girls got a published name in 1918; 1 in 231,526 of them was named Ailsa, which outranked 13.9% of the 5,585 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 776 names at #4,809; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 547Jesse#1,507 → #960
- ↑ 494Liberty#1,079 → #585
- ↑ 389Marilynn#1,337 → #948
- ↑ 312Margueritte#1,281 → #969
- ↑ 306Syble#807 → #501
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.