Ailsa
A girls’ name of Scottish origin, meaning from ailsa craig island.
Babies a year
15
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#1892
15 babies
Ailsa by the numbers
In 2025, 15 babies in England and Wales were named Ailsa. In the US, 9 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 19 babies in 2003, making it a 2000s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Ailsa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Aila69 in England and Wales (2025)
- Aisa8 in the US (2017)
- Aishaalive; living; woman436 in England and Wales (2025)
- Alisanoble kind; variant of Alice48 in England and Wales (2025)
- Alissanoble; a form of Alice222 in the US (2017)
- Amiliawork, industriousness; a spelling variant of Amelia173 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean an island
Like Ailsa, each of these has an island in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Islaisland; from the river Islay1,959 in England and Wales (2025)
- Evelynnisland; a variant spelling of Evelyn938 in the US (2017)
- Skyesky; the Isle of Skye214 in England and Wales (2025)
- Kelseyisland of the ship; a place name799 in the US (2017)
- Whitneywhite island; from a place name336 in the US (2017)
- Lindseylinden tree island; variant of Lindsey316 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Ailsa
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