Aisling

• English:/ˈæʃlɪŋ/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Aisling, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Caoimhe
• Roisin
• Clodagh
• Niamh
• Sorcha

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Aisling is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Norwegian given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark

  Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

  Also written Áisling

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Aisling is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A kind of Irish poem, developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries, in which Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, lamenting the state of the Irish people and predicting the revival of their fortunes.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Irish Gaelic: from the vocabulary word meaning ‘dream, vision’. This was not in use as a given name during the Middle Ages, but was adopted as part of the Irish revival in the 20th century. Variants: Aislinn; Ashling (Anglicized form) .

  as a word

• In Scottish Gaelic, dream, vision

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Aisling Beab. 1984IEIrish comedian, actress, and writer
• Aisling Loftusb. 1990GBEnglish actress
• Aisling Franciosib. 1993IEIrish-Italian actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Aisling?

In English /ˈæʃlɪŋ/ (Wiktionary).

What does the name Aisling mean, and where does it come from?

Irish Gaelic, pronounced ‘ash-ling’: from the vocabulary word aisling ‘dream’, ‘vision’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.

What are other forms of the name Aisling?

In the etymology graph, Aislinn, Ashling and Aislin are forms of the same name in other languages.

Which countries have the most people named Aisling?

Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Aisling in Ireland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aisling. After it come United Kingdom, United States, Australia and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.

Is Aisling a male or female name?

Aisling is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).

How common is the name Aisling?

In the United States, the national register counted 1,444 people named Aisling in 2020, about 1 in 230 thousand residents.

How common is Aisling compared with other names?

In Ireland, Aisling is the 127th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.