[3] The name, first attested as Asulue(s)bi in 1086, is of Viking origin and means "Aslak's farm.

Before this time it was in the non-metropolitan county of Cleveland, created on 1 April 1974 under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972.

Aislaby is in the Stockton district and its nearest police station is in Yarm.

Aislaby is home to the former Middlesbrough and England national football team manager, Steve McClaren.

He bought the house that his predecessor at Middlesbrough FC, Bryan Robson, had lived in.