Aileen is a variant of Eileen, the anglicized form of the Irish Eibhlín. This name ultimately goes back to Germanic Avila of unknown meaning.
Aileen is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Aileen isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Aileen ranks 569. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Aileen. In the entire USA, approximately 29,865 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Aileen. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With six letters, the name Aileen is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Aileen and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Aileen, you can simply say:
Apple
Igloo
Lion
Elephant
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Aileen
Aileen
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
I
L
E
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N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
I
L
E
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Aileen sounds like this:
