Girl · Irish
Aisling
Say it: ASH-ling
Meaning
Irish aisling 'dream, vision', also the name of a genre of 17th- and 18th-century Irish poetry.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Adopted as a given name in 20th-century Ireland.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 1,333 babies given this name since 1972
- At its height in 2002, about 1 in 29,400 girls
- 30 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Aislinn, Ashling
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Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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