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Ainhoa

#961 in 2025Girls' name

Virgin of Ainhoa

Ainhoa has been given to 2,481 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #961 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 368 recorded.

Babies named Ainhoa, 2025

1 in 12,400

Ainhoa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ainhoa: meaning, origin, and history

Virgin of Ainhoa

Basque

What Ainhoa means

Ainhoa means “Virgin of Ainhoa”, associated with Ainhoa.

Origin, language, and formation

Ainhoa is used in Basque and Spanish. Its origins include Basque.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Virgen.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Basque, Ainhoa is pronounced /ai̯noa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,481 girls were recorded with the name Ainhoa between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 368 in 2019; its best national rank was #761 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #878 in 2020 to #961 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,072 in 2015 to #961 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 Ainhoa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,400
268 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,000
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#961
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,575 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ainhoa 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 8,575 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ainhoa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ainhoas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ainhoa was born before 2021 — so the typical Ainhoa is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
66.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,481
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 66.4% of all recorded uses (1,648).

Is Ainhoa 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
−14
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−83
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,111
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
7.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.8%
Peak was 2019 (368)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#761
2019

Spellings of Ainhoa

Ainhoa is not the most common spelling — Aisha is, with 78.0% against Ainhoa's 7.2%.

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 Ainhoa is used

Across 2016–2025, Ainhoa was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 1,515 girls, against 1 in 5,511 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

266 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 1,515
  2. 2Texas1 in 3,846
  3. 3Arizona1 in 4,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 4,000
  5. 5Nevada1 in 5,263
  6. 6Colorado1 in 5,882
  7. 7California1 in 6,250
  8. 8New York1 in 6,250

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.

Ainhoa around the world

Where Ainhoa 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
    2003–2023
    #4,057
    in 2023
  • France
    1976–2025
    #1,247
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2024
    #3,027
    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.

Notable people named Ainhoa

People whose public names include Ainhoa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ainhoa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#961
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 83
Best rank ever
#761
2019
Peak year
2019
368 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,481
Count in 2025
268

Names similar to Ainhoa

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

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Names with a curve like Ainhoa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ainhoa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KhalaniElowenNyraKahlaniNovahLakelynKaisleyAyraZylaAlaiyaMarigoldEmberlynn

Sibling names for Ainhoa

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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