Ailsa

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ailsa: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ailsa: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #148, reached in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#148highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#686
1997	#658
1998	#619
1999	#653
2000	#764
2001	#765
2002	#809
2003	#1083
2004	#1106
2005	#1012
2006	#1119
2007	#1102
2008	#1391
2009	#1365
2010	#1150
2011	#1196
2012	#1387
2013	#1484
2014	#1070
2015	#1405
2016	#1416
2017	#2201
2018	#1343
2019	#1703
2020	#2163
2021	#1454
2022	#2488
2023	#1959
2024	#1894

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #148 among girls in Scotland, #1894 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #686 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1894 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Ailsa appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 702 births with the name.

Ailsa across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ailsa's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#686 (1996)	#619 (1998)	#1894 (2024)	29 of 29	702 (1996–2024)	41 (1998)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2008)	#336 (2019)	#336 (2019)	3 of 12	11 (2008–2019)	4 (2013)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#576 (1997)	#550 (2006)	#842 (2007)	3 of 11	11 (1997–2007)	5 (2006)

Ailsa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ailsa in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	149	4 of 10	37
2000sbusiest	250	10 of 10	25
2010s	231	10 of 10	23
2020s	72	5 of 10	14

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 25 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ailsa appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #148 in Scotland in 2024.

Ailsa's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1894	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1959	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1454	21	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2163	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1703	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1343	24	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1416	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1405	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1070	33	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1484	21	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1387	23	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1196	27	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1150	28	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1365	21	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1391	20	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1102	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1119	24	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1012	25	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1106	21	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1083	21	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#809	30	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#765	32	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#764	30	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#653	37	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#619	41	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#658	37	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#686	34	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#336	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	5	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#148	29	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #148, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 41 births, registered in England and Wales in 1998.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cain · #149, 31y
Paisley · #146, 30y
Priya · #151, 30y
Shelby · #151, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ffion · #148, 29y
Lyle · #148, 29y
Macey · #148, 29y
Cain · #149, 31y

Ailsa was ranked #148 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ailsa and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ailsa without appearing here.

Ailsa moved ahead of

Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2201 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1343 and #4684.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1959 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1894 and #3695.
Karen Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2163 and #1773 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1454 and #3192.
Tayla Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1959 and #1774 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1894 and #3318.

Moved ahead of Ailsa

Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1454 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2488 and #1452.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1703 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2163 and #1313.
Ezra Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1416 and #1689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #2201 and #1411.
Fiadh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1343 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1703 and #1063.

Moved the opposite way to Ailsa

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ailsa went from #686 to #1894 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ailsa went from #686 to #1894 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ailsa went from #686 to #1894 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ailsa went from #686 to #1894 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Ailsa

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ailsa went from #686 to #1894 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ailsa went from #686 to #1894 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ailsa went from #686 to #1894 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ailsa went from #686 to #1894 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #148 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ailsa

Ailsa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ailsa across 3 official records

Ailsa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Ailsa at a glance

Ailsa across 3 official records

Ailsa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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