Ainara
Ainara was given to 295 girls in 2025, #898 among girls’ names; 1,713 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Ainara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 3 years old and half are between 2 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ainara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ainara mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Ainara is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “swallow” (ainara).
Borrowed from Basque Ainara, itself from ainara (“swallow”), a variant of enara.
/aiˈnaɾa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ainara?
#898 among girls’ names, 2025
Ainara rose from #2,382 in 2015 to #898 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.04 to 0.18 per 1,000.
309 babies in 2023, the peak
Ainara peaked in 2023, when 309 girls were given it, #866 among girls’ names. The 295 births of 2025 are 95% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 295 | #898 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 271 | #961 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 309 | #866 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 189 | #1,270 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 97 | #1,991 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,524 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,388 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 82 | #2,239 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,836 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,595 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77 | #2,382 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,923 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,494 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,214 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,791 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,239 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,903 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,625 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,701 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,195 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,221 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,437 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ainara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ainara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ainara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ainara, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,713 Americans ever recorded as Ainara. The median Ainara alive today is 3 years old; half are between 2 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 446 people named Ainara (444 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 498 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 89 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,610 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Ainara born?
The states with the most babies named Ainara are Texas, California and Florida, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 44 | #685 | 1.4× |
| California | 35 | #831 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 21 | #768 | 1.4× |
| New York | 19 | #829 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 19 | #406 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 15 | #659 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 12 | #604 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 12 | #749 | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 9 | #678 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 9 | #985 | 0.5× |
Where Ainara is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ainara is most over-represented in Florida: since 2003 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ainara with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,576 babies since 1880, Ainara is the most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 295 of their 699 babies (42%), again the 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 Ainara
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 Ainara and names like it
- Compare Ainara and AnariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAinara peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ainara since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Ainara: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Ainara.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ainara alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.