Aisling (given name)

Infobox Given Name Revised
name = Aisling


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caption=This painting by Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes depicts an aisling.
pronunciation=Ash-ling, Ash-lynn, Ash-leen, Ice-sh-leen, Ice-sh-linn
gender = female
meaning = aisling, meaning a "dream," a "vision"
region = Ireland
nickname =
origin = Irish
related names = Aislin, Aislinn, Ashleen, Ashling, Ashlyn, Ashlynn, Isleen
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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, such as Aishling, Aislin, Aislinn, Aislynn, Ashleen, Ashling, Eislinn and Isleen, and Ashlyn and Ashlynn, variants used most often in the United States. For a time this name was Anglicised as Esther.fact|date=August 2008 Pronunciation of the name may vary somewhat, however, "Ash-ling" is the most common, acceptable pronunciation. "Aze-ling", "as-sling" and "ays-ling" are not correct pronunciations of "Aisling" as they violate Gaelic pronunciation rules.

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. [ [http://www.behindthename.com/name/aisling Behind the Name] ]

Women named Aisling

*Aisling Burnand, the Chief Executive of the UK BioIndustry Association
*Aislinn O'Sullivan, Irish actress

Fictional characters

*Aisling Grey is a character in Katie MacAlister's "Guardian" series.
*Aisling, a Fey character in Laurell K. Hamilton's "Meredith Gentry" series.

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