Ainhoa
Ainhoa was given to 268 girls in 2025, #961 among girls’ names; 2,481 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,470 Americans named Ainhoa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 7.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ainhoa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ainhoa mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Ainhoa is “a female given name from Basque”
Borrowed from Basque Ainhoa. Shortened from Virgen de Ainhoa (“Virgin of Ainhoa”), a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary, from the place name Ainhoa.
/aiˈnoa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ainhoa?
#961 among girls’ names, 2025
Ainhoa rose from #4,072 in 2015 to #961 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.02 to 0.17 per 1,000.
368 babies in 2019, the peak
Ainhoa peaked in 2019, when 368 girls were given it, #761 among girls’ names. The 268 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 268 | #961 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 278 | #947 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 258 | #989 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 266 | #992 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 272 | #956 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 306 | #878 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 368 | #761 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 239 | #1,065 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 73 | #2,464 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,465 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,072 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,212 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,155 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,287 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,386 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,087 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,715 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,788 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,838 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ainhoa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ainhoa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ainhoa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ainhoa, and how old are they?
2,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,481 Americans ever recorded as Ainhoa. The median Ainhoa alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 7.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 38 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,430 |
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.
Where are babies named Ainhoa born?
The states with the most babies named Ainhoa are Florida, Texas and California, with 72% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 80 | #236 | 3.8× |
| Texas | 55 | #570 | 1.6× |
| California | 22 | #1,150 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #668 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #835 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 9 | #930 | 0.6× |
| New York | 8 | #1,531 | 0.9× |
| Nevada | 7 | #374 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,538 | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 5 | #779 | 0.3× |
Where Ainhoa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ainhoa is most over-represented in Florida: since 2003 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 Ainhoa 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,810 babies since 1880, Ainhoa is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 268 of their 382 babies (70%), 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 Ainhoa
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 Ainhoa and names like it
- Compare Ainhoa and AinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAinhoa peaked in 2019.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ainhoa since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Ainhoa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ainhoa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.