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Ainhoa vs Ainslie

American parents have registered 2,481 Ainhoas since 1880, against 625 Ainslies. Ainhoa is still ahead, with 268 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ainhoa Ainslie

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 39 years in which either name was published, Ainslie for 28 years and Ainhoa for 11 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ainhoa Ainslie
Total US births 2,481625
Most in one year 36840
Babies in 2025 26815
Estimated living today 2,500620
Median age today 415
Peak year 20192009
Best rank 760th girls3,870th girls
Rank in 2025 960th7,133rd
First recorded 20031977
Girls / boys 2,481 / 0625 / 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 Ainslies alive today are over 15; half the Ainhoas are over 4. That is 11 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 Ainhoa Ainslie
England and Wales 507

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 Ainslie.