Meaning and history
Aelin is a modern literary name strongly associated with Aelin Galathynius, the central heroine of Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series. The books gave the spelling broad visibility as a personal name. It is sometimes linked online with Turkish Aylin, meaning a halo around the moon, but Aelin is not the standard Turkish spelling and that derivation should not be assumed. Its best-established history is therefore literary rather than traditional Turkish usage.
20062006: no US SSA record for this spelling
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20112011: no US SSA record for this spelling
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2015: no US SSA record for this spelling
20162016: 5 births, rank #16,215
2017: 5 births, rank #15,902
2018: 25 births, rank #5,152
2019: 26 births, rank #5,041
2020: 33 births, rank #4,169
20212021: 41 births, rank #3,678
2022: 43 births, rank #3,595
2023: 47 births, rank #3,386
2024: 79 births, rank #2,327
20252025: 107 births, rank #1,855
In 2025, 107 babies were recorded with the name Aelin, ranking #1,855 among girls.