Girl
Ainsley
As a girl's name, Ainsley traces back to Scottish, where it is understood to mean "Scottish place name". It is currently on the rise, with its biggest decade yet in the 2010s. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. 2014 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.
ScottishScottish place name
Etymology"One's own meadow" or "hermitage meadow"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
10
1960s
28
1970s
138
1980s
424
1990s
862
2000s
6,461
2010s
7,616
Peaked in the 2010s · 15,539 total U.S. births since 1900