Ailey
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 24 babies a year in the US.
Ailey by the numbers
Ailey was given to 24 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 71 babies in 2008, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Ailey
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Ailey. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Aisleyone's own meadow or solitary meadow; a respelling of Ainsley64 in the US (2017)
- Aileebright or shining; a form of Aileen53 in the US (2017)
- Ailenbright, shining; a form of Helen43 in the US (2017)
- Ailynoble; a form of Aileen7 in the US (2017)
- Adley521 in the US (2017)
- Arley84 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Ailey
Names that are said the same way as Ailey, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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