Ailanny

What Ailanny means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ailanny yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note New since 2015: under 5 US babies then, 280 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ailanny?

US: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 280 girls got the name (#932 that year). First in the US records in 2011.

How common

• About 1 in 5,740 baby girls in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AZ (0.5 per 1,000 girls), CO (0.43 per 1,000 girls), NJ (0.39 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Ailanny is #932 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Ailanny were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ailany7,136 US · 4 E&W
• Ailani1,807 US · 3 E&W
• Alanna1,099 US · 44 E&W
• Ailana205 US
• Aylany133 US
• Alany117 US
• Eilany104 US
• Alanni98 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ailanny

Girls

• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• Ruth#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 26,102 babies; 1,781 in 2025
• Margot#102Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #592 in 2015, #102 in 2025
• Kehlani#148Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #148 vs #894 in 2025
• Alora#195“my dream”^*
• Wrenley#158Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #158 vs #1,454 in 2025

For a brother

• Stetson#136“site in the Parish of South Brent”^*
• Sonny#298Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #822 in 2015, #298 in 2025
• Baker#217From a surname for “a baker, or owner of a communal oven”^*
• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025
• Leon#138“lion”^*
• Warren#240“river, water”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ailanny’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.