Ai — girls' name

What the Data Says About Ai

The Social Security Administration has registered 392 babies named Ai between 1974 and 2021, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ai currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 19 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ai performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 114 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Ai shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ai in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ai in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 392 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.