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Aina

#5,416 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly only

Aina has been given to 723 babies in the U.S. since 1901. In 2025 it ranked #5,416 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Aina, 2025

1 in 144,000

Aina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aina: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly only

Finnish

What Aina means

Aina may mean “only”, associated with ainoa.

Origin, language, and formation

Aina is used in Catalan, Finnish, Latvian, Norwegian, Swedish and Yoruba. Its origins include Finnish.

Aina is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ann and Aino.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Aina is pronounced [ˈaj.nə].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 723 girls were recorded with the name Aina between 1901 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2018; its best national rank was #1,341 in 1901.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,916 in 2020 to #5,416 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,903 in 2015 to #5,416 in 2025.

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 Aina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 69,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,416
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aina 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 2025 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ainas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aina was born before 2011 — so the typical Aina is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
633
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (210).

Is Aina 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
−645
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,500
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,487
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.9%
Peak was 2018 (47)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,341
1901

Spellings of Aina

Aina is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 13.6% against Aina's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aina is used

Across 1910–2025, Aina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 577,422 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Aina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aina around the world

Where Aina 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
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1971–2025
    #354
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #454
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2023
    #2,049
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1944–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,416
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,500
Best rank ever
#1,341
1901
Peak year
2018
47 that year
First recorded
1901
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
723
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Aina

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

AineHinaBinaKinaNainaEminaLeinaAninaSinaJinaAkinaEdinaAinaraErinaAinslieArinaZeinaAvinaAinoaSainaBrinaAinohaAinhoaDarina

Sibling names for Aina

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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