Aisling (given name)
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| Pronunciation | Ash-ling, Ash-lynn, Ash-leen, Ice-leen, Ice-linn |
| Gender | female |
| Meaning | aisling, meaning a "dream," a "vision" |
| Region of Origin | Ireland |
| Origin | Irish |
| Related names | Aislin, Aislinn, Ashleen, Ashing, Ashlyn, Ashlynn, Isleen |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Aisling |
Aisling is an Irish feminine given name meaning "dream" or "vision" and referring to an aisling, a poetic genre that developed during the late 17th and 18th century in Irish language genre poetry. The name has several variants, including the Irish English Aislin, the Irish Aislinn, Ashleen, Ashling and Isleen, and Ashlyn and Ashlynn, variants used most often in the United States.
The name Aisling was the thirty-first most popular name for baby girls in Ireland in 2005. Ashlyn was the 140th most popular name for baby girls in the United States in 2006, while its variant spelling Ashlynn was ranked at 293 for baby girls in 2006 in the United States. Ashlyn is also occasionally regarded as a modern name derived from Ashley and Lynn.[1]
