Aisling
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aisling is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ireland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Irish Gaelic, pronounced ‘ash-ling’: from the vocabulary word aisling ‘dream’, ‘vision’.
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 33K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 43K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ireland (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Irish Gaelic, pronounced ‘ash-ling’: from the vocabulary word aisling ‘dream’, ‘vision’. This was not in use as a personal name during the Middle Ages, but was adopted as part of the Irish revival in the 20th century.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aisling counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE Ireland | #127 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 61 | Aisling | 148 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Aisling | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 4 | Aisling | 171 |
| US United States | — | 1,444 | 1 in 230K | 1.4K | Aisling | 232 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 1 | Aisling | 104 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Aisling | 18 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Aisling | 27 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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 wordkaikki.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 wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aisling Walshb. 1963IEIrish writer and film director
- Aisling O'Sullivanb. 1968IEIrish actress
- Aisling O'Loughlinb. 1978IETV journalist
- Aisling Beab. 1984IEIrish comedian, actress, and writer
- Aisling Dalyb. 1987IEIrish martial artist
- Aisling Chin-Yeeb. 1988CACanadian film director, writer and producer
- Aisling Loftusb. 1990GBEnglish actress
- Aisling Franciosib. 1993IEIrish-Italian actress
- Aisling D'Hoogheb. 1994BEBelgian field hockey player
- Aisling Jarrett-Gavinb. 2000GBBritish actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,564 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2001 | 248 | #23 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2019 | 61 | #94 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 39 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #9,564 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 4 | #334 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2023 | 3 | #749 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2013 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2024 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
- In which country does Aisling have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Aisling in Ireland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aisling.
- Is Aisling a male or female name?
- Aisling is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- 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.
- 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.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aislingThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aisling” — the 127th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.