Given name & surname
Ailis
“one who is noble and kind”
Ailis is used as a given name and a surname. One Irish interpretation is “one who is noble and kind.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Irish interpretation is “one who is noble and kind.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Irish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ailis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 228
- 0 boys · 228 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −81%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 22 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 257 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ailis’s family of names
Ailis has a related form in Ailish. In Scottish Gaelic usage, Ailis has a related form in Aileas. Ailis has a related form in Ailesh.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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