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Ainara

#898 in 2025Girls' name

Swallow

Ainara has been given to 1,713 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #898 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 309 recorded.

Babies named Ainara, 2025

1 in 11,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ainara: meaning, origin, and history

Swallow

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ainara means

Ainara means “swallow”, associated with ainara.

Origin, language, and formation

Ainara is used in Basque and Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Basque, Ainara is pronounced /ai̯naɾa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,713 girls were recorded with the name Ainara between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 309 in 2023; its best national rank was #866 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,524 in 2020 to #898 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,382 in 2015 to #898 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 Ainara?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,200
295 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,450
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#898
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ainara 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ainara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ainaras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ainara was born before 2023 — so the typical Ainara is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
71.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,713
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 71.7% of all recorded uses (1,229).

Is Ainara 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
+63
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,626
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,484
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
95.5%
Peak was 2023 (309)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#866
2023

Spellings of Ainara

Ainara is not the most common spelling — Kiara is, with 24.1% against Ainara's 0.72%.

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 Ainara is used

Across 2016–2025, Ainara was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 10,013 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 6,250
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 6,250
  3. 3Texas1 in 6,250
  4. 4Arizona1 in 7,692
  5. 5California1 in 8,333
  6. 6New York1 in 9,091
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 9,091
  8. 8Colorado1 in 10,000

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.

Ainara around the world

Where Ainara 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
    2008–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1982–2025
    #2,801
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ainara by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#898
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,626
Best rank ever
#866
2023
Peak year
2023
309 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,713
Count in 2025
295

Names similar to Ainara

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

AinharaAinhoaAinsleeKeyaraKeiaraKataraTakaraKamaraAdharaAineAinslieDamaraJamaraZamaraZaharaSitaraCamaraElaraAinnaraKiearaSolaraAinohaAksharaMeara

Sibling names for Ainara

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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