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The first name 
Ailey

Ailey is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Ailey meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Ailey is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Ailey. In the SmartGenius ranking, Ailey is #3,360 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ailey.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Ailey

Ailey -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Ailey is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 162 Americans in total bear this name. And these 162 women are located in only five states: California, Florida, New York, North Carolina and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Ailey and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Ailey in relation to it’s female population is California. And yet even there, only one in 142,028 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Ailey.

Ailey has 5 letters 
and begins with an A

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 five letters, the name Ailey is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.

Other names with 
A, i, l, e and y

If you take all the letters in the name Ailey – A, i, l, e and y – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Aliye or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Ailey

If your name is Ailey 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...

This is how you spell the name Ailey

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ailey, you can simply say:

Apple

Igloo

Lion

Elephant

Yoyo

This is how the name Ailey is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Ailey in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Ailey

Ailey

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Ailey

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Ailey is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
I
L
E
Y

Have you ever waved the name Ailey

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
Y

Beeping like crazy...

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. Ailey sounds like this: