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Ain

Girls' name

Variant of Hendrik

Ain has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Ain, 2024

1 in 669,000

Ain over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ain: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Hendrik

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ain means

Ain is a variant of Hendrik.

Origin, language, and formation

Ain is used in Estonian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hendrik.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 28 girls were recorded with the name Ain between 1975 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1975; its best national rank was #6,489 in 1975.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ain?

Ain had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ain sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ain. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ains were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ain was born before 2012 — so the typical Ain is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
28
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Ain rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (8)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,489
1975

Ain around the world

Where Ain ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ain by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,489
1975
Peak year
1975
8 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ain

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ain

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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