Ainsley

What Ainsley means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #483 vs #2,440 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ainsley?

US: Falling: down from #338 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #5730 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 1,001 girls got the name (#337 that year). First in the US records in 1961.

How common

• About 1 in 2,588 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 23,026 baby girls in England and Wales 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 ME (2.25 per 1,000 girls), ND (2.22 per 1,000 girls), WV (1.58 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Ainsley is #483 in the US and #2440 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.7% of US babies named Ainsley were girls.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ensley322 US · 7 E&W
• Ansley170 US
• Ainslee47 US
• Anslee38 US
• Annslee22 US
• Annsley18 US
• Aynsley17 US
• Insley7 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 Ainsley

Girls

• Piper#155Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #67 in 2015, #155 in 2025
• Avery#37Editor’s note Used for both: 82% of US babies named Avery in 2025 were girls
• Campbell#617“crooked + mouth”^*
• Teagan#340Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1979, with 6 babies
• Brinley#608Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #608 vs #5,927 in 2025
• Adley#805Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #805 vs #2,006 in 2025

For a brother

• Camden#205“enclosure + valley”^*
• Kamden#717Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1986, with 6 babies
• Cason#846“house”^*
• Rylan#416possibly “rye field”^*
• Carter#45“son of Arthur”^*
• Ashton#197“ash (tree species) + enclosure, settlement”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ainsley’s. Rank is US 2025.