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Ainhoa vs Aino

American parents have registered 2,481 Ainhoas since 1880, against 87 Ainos. Ainhoa is still ahead, with 268 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ainhoa against Aino, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ainhoa Aino

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 31 years in which either name was published, Ainhoa for 19 years and Aino for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ainhoa Aino
Total US births 2,48187
Most in one year 36812
Babies in 2025 268under 5
Estimated living today 2,5001
Median age today 495
Peak year 20191916
Best rank 760th girls2,498th girls
Rank in 2025 960thunranked
First recorded 20031910
Girls / boys 2,481 / 087 / 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 Ainos alive today are over 95; half the Ainhoas are over 4. That is 91 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ainhoa Aino
England and Wales 503

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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