Aoi
Aoi was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,181 among girls’ names; 244 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aoi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aoi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aoi is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aoi?
#10,181 among girls’ names, 2025
Aoi rose from #11,936 in 2015 to #10,181 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 5.6 per million.
21 babies in 2016, the peak
Aoi peaked in 2016, when 21 babies were given it (11 girls, #9,477 among girls’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,181 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 8 | #8,981 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #12,483 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,577 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,634 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,876 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,477 | 10 | #7,627 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,936 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,089 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,334 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #13,635 | 7 | #9,771 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,460 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,282 | 6 | #10,849 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,552 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,154 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,793 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,676 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,165 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,726 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,500 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,663 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,671 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,824 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,492 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,878 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,648 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Aoi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 244 Americans recorded as Aoi, 85% are girls and 15% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aoi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aoi, and how old are they?
An estimated 242 Americans named Aoi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 395 people named Aoi (300 women and girls, 95 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 220 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Aoi rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,694 babies since 1880, Aoi is the third most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 466 babies (1.9%), the second 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 Aoi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1990-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Teagen | 1,581 | |
| Macyn | 1,074 | |
| Keelyn | 1,162 | |
| Rhiley | 1,206 | |
| Kerrington | 1,003 |
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 Aoi and names like it
- Compare Aoi and AyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAoi peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aoi since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Aoi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Aoi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aoi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.