Ainoa

#7,494 in 2025Girls' name

Virgin of Ainhoa, through Ainhoa

Ainoa has been given to 119 babies in the U.S. since 2018. In 2025 it ranked #7,494 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Ainoa, 2025

1 in 237,000

Ainoa over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ainoa: meaning, origin, and history

Virgin of Ainhoa, through Ainhoa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ainoa means

Ainoa belongs to the name family reached through Ainoa → Ainhoa. Its meaning is “Virgin of Ainhoa”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ainoa is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ainhoa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Ainoa is pronounced /aiˈnoa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 119 girls were recorded with the name Ainoa between 2018 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2020; its best national rank was #5,318 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,318 in 2020 to #7,494 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.

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How common is Ainoa?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 237,000; 14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 115,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #7,494; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 164,137 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ainoa 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ainoa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ainoas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ainoa was born before 2022 — so the typical Ainoa is around 3 today.

Median birth year: 2022; About 3 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 79.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 119; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 79.8% of all recorded uses (95).

Is Ainoa 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: +962; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −2,176; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 60.9%; Peak was 2020 (23)
Years since peak: 5; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 46.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,318; 2020

Spellings of Ainoa

Ainoa is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 42.3% against Ainoa's <0.01%.

Linda42.3%1,455,143
Anna26.6%914,859
Tina8.5%292,146
Gina4.4%153,057
Nina3.9%133,788
Ana3.2%111,359
Alina1.3%45,387
Ina0.99%34,074

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 Ainoa is used

Across 1910–2025, Ainoa was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 173,851 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Florida1 in 100,000

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. Ainoa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ainoa around the world

Where Ainoa 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.

France
1998–2025
#4,141
in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ainoa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #7,494
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 2,176
Best rank ever: #5,318; 2020
Peak year: 2020; 23 that year
First recorded: 2018
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 119
Count in 2025: 14

Names similar to Ainoa

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

Ainoah Ainoha Ainhara Aino Ahinoa Aina Rinoa Genoa Ainslie Aine Ainara Aihnoa Ainzley Tonoa Ainhoa Ainnara Shenoa Aindri Elenoa Ainzlee Ainslee Ain Ainka Kainoa

Sibling names for Ainoa

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

For a sister

Karleigh Rhianna Keren Kendyl Hayleigh Jaiden Shaniya Jazmyne

For a brother

Kale Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Gavyn

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