Aoi — unisex name
199 babies named Aoi in U.S. Social Security records since 1994, with the highest year being 2014. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Aoi was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Aoi in 2014 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Aoi
The Social Security Administration has registered 199 babies named Aoi between 1994 and 2019, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aoi currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Aoi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 36 additional births since 2010.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Aoi performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 95 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Aoi shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Aoi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Aoi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 199 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Aoi at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Aoi popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1994
- Peak year (2014)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 26 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
199 total births across 26 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2014 with 14 births in a single year.
Aoi popularity over time — boys
36 total births recorded since 2010 (Aoi as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Aoi accounts for 15% of total recorded use across both genders.
Aoi by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 95 births that decade — 48% of Aoi's all-time total
Aoi decade highlights
- Peak decade 95 births
- Runner-up 81 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Aoi's strongest decade
95 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Aoi by state
Where Aoi concentrates geographically — total births since 1994
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 2.5% |
5 of 199 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 2.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1994–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.