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Ainhoa vs Ainslee

American parents have registered 2,481 Ainhoas since 1880, against 1,583 Ainslees. Ainhoa is still ahead, with 268 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ainhoa Ainslee

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 40 years in which either name was published, Ainslee for 32 years and Ainhoa for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ainhoa Ainslee
Total US births 2,4811,583
Most in one year 36889
Babies in 2025 26847
Estimated living today 2,5001,600
Median age today 412
Peak year 20192017
Best rank 760th girls2,144th girls
Rank in 2025 960th3,296th
First recorded 20031985
Girls / boys 2,481 / 01,583 / 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 Ainslees alive today are over 12; half the Ainhoas are over 4. 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.

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