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Aine vs Ainoha

American parents have registered 1,687 Aines since 1880, against 211 Ainohas. But in 2025 it was Ainoha that was commoner, 48 babies to 39.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aine against Ainoha, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aine Ainoha

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 53 years in which either name was published, Aine for 52 years and Ainoha for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aine Ainoha
Total US births 1,687211
Most in one year 6848
Babies in 2025 3948
Estimated living today 1,700210
Median age today 173
Peak year 20042025
Best rank 2,481st girls3,249th girls
Rank in 2025 3,780th3,249th
First recorded 19662018
Girls / boys 1,687 / 0211 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Aines alive today are over 17; half the Ainohas are over 3. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aine and Ainoha.