Aili
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Aili är ett finskt-samiskt namn med oviss härledning
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/eɪli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aili is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 291K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 1.1K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈63,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Aili är ett finskt-samiskt namn med oviss härledning. Namnet förekom i Finland på 1600- och 1700-talet men kom under 1800-talet ur bruk i större delen av landet. Under 1900-talets första hälft återtog det sin popularitet och var då bland de 50 vanligaste kvinnonamnen.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Aili, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Aili counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Aili is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, to blame, criticise
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mte, fishhook
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latvian, Cilvēka vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Aili Nordgrenb. 1908FIFinnish writer (1908-1995)
- Ansa Ikonenb. 1913FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress
- Elina Karjalainenb. 1927FInot in their usual nameFinnish writer and journalist (1927–2006)
- Aili Jõgib. 1931EEEstonian resistance fighter and sports shooting coach (1931-2017)
- Aili Laitinenb. 1935FIFinnish politician
- Aili Vintb. 1941EEEstonian graphic designer and painter (born 1941)
- Aili Nenolab. 1942FIFinnish cultural studies scholar
- Aili Aarelaid-Tartb. 1947EEEstonian historian, theatrologist and sociologist (1947-2014)
- Aili Keskitalob. 1968NOSami politician from Norway
- Aili Guttormb. 1991NOSaami politician from Norway
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)55 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 33K | #57 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 5.2K | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 1.8K | #93 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 1.8K | #82 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,304 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 884 | #1,849 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 412 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 326 | #3,358 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 35 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17 | #11,304 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #27,461 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Aili?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪli/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Aili?
- In the etymology graph, Olga, Olha and Laila are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Aili a male or female name?
- Aili is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV), Estonia (Statistics Estonia), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- What does the name Aili mean?
- Recorded meaning: Aili är ett finskt-samiskt namn med oviss härledning.
- In which country does Aili have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 63 thousand people named Aili in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aili.
- Where is Aili most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aili is densest in Finland — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Aili?
- In Finland, the national register counted 5,212 people named Aili, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Aili compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Aili is the 180th most common given name of 9,600 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Aili?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ailiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aili” — the 180th most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.