Ainoa
Ainoa was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,494 among girls’ names; 119 Americans have been recorded with it since 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ainoa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ainoa mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Ainoa is “a female given name, variant of Ainhoa”
/aiˈnoa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ainoa?
#7,494 among girls’ names, 2025
Ainoa entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #7,494 in 2025.
23 babies in 2020, the peak
Ainoa peaked in 2020, when 23 girls were given it, #5,318 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,494 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,456 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,003 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,463 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,481 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,318 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,734 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,827 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ainoa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ainoa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 8 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ainoa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ainoa, and how old are they?
An estimated 118 Americans named Ainoa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 3 and 6. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,061,470 babies since 1880, Ainoa is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 5,132 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 Ainoa
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 Ainoa and names like it
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- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Ainoa: every such name, by how often it is given.
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