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I think the most common pronunciation now is Eye-leen. Rhyming the first syllable with "say" was an pronunciation of the early 20th century used by parents who found the name in a written source and didn't realize what the traditional pronunciation was.

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There is a lot of confusion today between Aileen and the Hispanic Aylen. I have seen quite a few examples of Hispanic girls with the spellings Ailin or Aylin, pronounced "eye-leen".