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Aina vs Ainoha

American parents have registered 723 Ainas since 1880, against 211 Ainohas. But in 2025 it was Ainoha that was commoner, 48 babies to 23.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aina against Ainoha, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aina 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 60 years in which either name was published, Aina for 58 years and Ainoha for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aina Ainoha
Total US births 723211
Most in one year 4748
Babies in 2025 2348
Estimated living today 630210
Median age today 113
Peak year 20182025
Best rank 3,346th girls3,249th girls
Rank in 2025 5,410th3,249th
First recorded 19012018
Girls / boys 723 / 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 Ainas alive today are over 11; half the Ainohas are over 3. That is 8 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Aina Ainoha
France 2,455 Aïna125

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: Aina and Ainoha.