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Aino vs Ainslee

American parents have registered 1,583 Ainslees since 1880, against 87 Ainos. Ainslee is still ahead, with 47 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aino against Ainslee, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aino 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 52 years in which either name was published, Ainslee for 40 years and Aino for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aino Ainslee
Total US births 871,583
Most in one year 1289
Babies in 2025 under 547
Estimated living today 11,600
Median age today 9512
Peak year 19162017
Best rank 2,498th girls2,144th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,296th
First recorded 19101985
Girls / boys 87 / 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 Ainos alive today are over 95; half the Ainslees are over 12. That is 83 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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