Ainsley

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Ainsley: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #410, and it stood at #2,440 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#410highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1364
1997	#2738
1998	#3848
1999	#2770
2006	#4157
2008	#4524
2009	#5556
2011	#5785
2014	#3160
2015	#5730
2017	#4763
2019	#5591
2021	#2711
2022	#3148
2023	#2927
2024	#4192
2025	#2440

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 17 of the 30 years from 1996 to 2025.

In 2024: #638 among girls in Scotland, #4192 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1364 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
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #410 among boys in England and Wales, in 1997 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #2440 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Ainsley appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 285 births with the name.

Ainsley across 2 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.

Ainsley'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	#1364 (1996)	#1364 (1996)	#2440 (2025)	17 of 30	97 (1996–2025)	13 (1996)
England and Wales · Boys	#450 (1996)	#410 (1997)	#3688 (2024)	25 of 29	285 (1996–2024)	52 (1997)

Ainsley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Ainsley in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	134	4 of 10	34
2000sbusiest	88	9 of 10	10
2010s	36	7 of 10	5
2020s	27	5 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 10 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1997 and 1998, when recorded births fell by 30, from 52 to 22.

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

Ainsley 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #410 in England and Wales in 1997.

Ainsley'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#2440	11	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2711	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2228	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2079	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2211	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1851	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#976	19	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1078	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1241	11	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#906	17	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#738	22	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#410	52	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1364	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#450	43	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

Where Ainsley is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Ainsley, between 1996 and 2025, in 28 of those 30 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2025	28	#410 in 1997
Scotland	2024	1	#638 in 2024

Its high point came 27 years earlier in England and Wales (1997) than in Scotland (2024).

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #410, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 52 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, 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.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Amani · #410, 30y
Anjali · #410, 30y
Chukwuemeka · #409, 29y
Fahd · #409, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Amani · #410, 30y
Anjali · #410, 30y
Hasnain · #410, 30y
Abiola · #409, 18y

Ainsley was ranked #410 in England and Wales · Boys in 1997. 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.

Callan#407
Chay#407
Caine#410
Keith#410
Ahmad#413
Darryl#413
Georgie#413
Harris#413

Ainsley 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ainsley without appearing here.

Ainsley moved ahead of

Belinda
In 2024 they stood at #4192 and #3695 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2025 that had become #2440 and #5927.
Shauna
In 2024 they stood at #4192 and #4192 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2025 that had become #2440 and #5927.
Kirsten
In 2020 they stood at #5591 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #5581.
Tracy
In 2020 they stood at #5591 and #3151 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Ainsley

Eabha
In 2014 they stood at #3160 and #3514 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #2070.
Alma
In 2005 they stood at #2770 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #4157 and #1087.
Fiadh
In 2014 they stood at #3160 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #2705.
Aria
In 2005 they stood at #2770 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #4157 and #1280.

Moved the opposite way to Ainsley

Ada
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Ainsley went from #1364 to #2440 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Ainsley went from #1364 to #2440 while Alma went from #2096 to #211.
Alyssa
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Ainsley went from #1364 to #2440 while Alyssa went from #783 to #325.
Amalie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Ainsley went from #1364 to #2440 while Amalie went from #2096 to #894.

Moved the same way as Ainsley

Abigail
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Ainsley went from #1364 to #2440 and Abigail from #21 to #171.
Aimee
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Ainsley went from #1364 to #2440 and Aimee from #70 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Ainsley went from #1364 to #2440 and Aisling from #440 to #1892.
Alex
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Ainsley went from #1364 to #2440 and Alex from #161 to #2605.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #410 in England and Wales in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ainsley

Ainsley at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ainsley across 2 official records

Ainsley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ainsley appears in

Popularity data

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Ainsley at a glance

Ainsley across 2 official records

Ainsley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ainsley appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ainsley

Ainsley and the names beside it

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