Aine
Aine was given to 39 girls in 2025, #3,780 among girls’ names; 1,687 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Aine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aine?
#3,780 among girls’ names, 2025
Aine fell from #3,535 in 2015 to #3,780 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.6 to 24.3 per million.
68 babies in 2004, the peak
Aine peaked in 2004, when 68 girls were given it, #2,478 among girls’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,780 | 24.3 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,120 | 31.5 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,891 | 36.1 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,692 | 39.0 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,438 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,282 | 29.1 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,223 | 29.2 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,663 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,772 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,349 | 18.6 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,535 | 24.6 |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,078 | 30.2 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,513 | 25.1 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,314 | 27.8 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,351 | 27.3 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,255 | 28.1 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,001 | 31.0 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,221 | 27.5 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,788 | 33.8 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,816 | 32.6 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,257 | 25.4 |
| 2004 | 68 | #2,478 | 37.0 |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,436 | 36.7 |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,639 | 32.3 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,696 | 30.5 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,016 | 25.3 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,851 | 26.5 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,753 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,624 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,501 | 18.3 |
| 1995 | 26 | #3,969 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #5,984 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,266 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,480 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,337 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,504 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,529 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,809 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,841 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,926 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,693 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,288 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,530 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,316 | 5.0 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,347 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,299 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,519 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,364 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,669 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,564 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,008 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,369 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,569 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aine, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,687 Americans ever recorded as Aine. The median Aine alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,546 people named Aine (1,524 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,379 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 71 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 841 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 593 |
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 Aine born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #2,087 | 1.4× |
Where Aine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aine is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1966 it was given 3.8 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 Aine 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 1,725,267 babies since 1880, Aine is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 6,138 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Aine
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 Aine and names like it
- Compare Aine and AnnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAine peaked in 2004.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aine since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Aine.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aine alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.