Aina
Aina was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,416 among girls’ names; 723 Americans have been recorded with it since 1901 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aina mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Aina is “a female given name”
Borrowed from Finnish Aina, first recorded as a name of Swedish speaking Finns in 1839, in Sweden in 1845.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aina?
#5,416 among girls’ names, 2025
Aina rose from #10,903 in 2015 to #5,416 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 14.3 per million.
47 babies in 2018, the peak
Aina peaked in 2018, when 47 girls were given it, #3,346 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,416 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,771 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,127 | 15.6 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,964 | 22.6 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,017 | 21.9 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,916 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,345 | 19.1 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,346 | 27.6 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,537 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 21 | #5,991 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #10,903 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,651 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,040 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,462 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,127 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,910 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,464 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,825 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,837 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,493 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,936 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,165 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,682 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,287 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,616 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,186 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,404 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,143 | 4.5 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,147 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,566 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,755 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,523 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,383 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,337 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,692 | 2.9 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,105 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,021 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,954 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,665 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,298 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,794 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,442 | 4.1 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,622 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,276 | 4.1 |
| 1956 | 5 | #5,959 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,676 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,912 | 3.2 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,249 | 2.9 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,393 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,973 | 5.8 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,403 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,820 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,376 | 12.1 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,918 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,282 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,437 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,829 | 9.6 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,211 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,865 | 17.9 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,341 | 29.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aina, and how old are they?
An estimated 625 Americans named Aina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,021 people named Aina (983 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 454 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,416,885 babies since 1880, Aina is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 5,723 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aina and names like it
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