Aina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: always
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɪnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 27K
- LVLatvia1 in 557
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- 1 in 557 (inferred from the name graph)
≈85,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, equivalent to English Ann
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
How Aina is read(measured from records)
Aina is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English32%
African; 'grateful'
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- Malay21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aina in Malay.
- Finnish15%
always
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aina in Spanish.
- Catalan6.8%
a female given name, equivalent to English Ann
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aina 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Aina | 29 |
| ES Spain | #611 | 17,672 | 1 in 2.8K | 18K | Aina | 149 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Aina | 26 |
| SE Sweden | — | 8,301 | 1 in 1.2K | 8.3K | — | 14 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Aina | 53 |
| NO Norway | — | 3,890 | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Aina | 21 |
| LV Latvia | — | 3,378 | 1 in 557 | 3.4K | Aina | 13 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
Aina 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 Swedish, Aina är belagt hos den finlandssvenske skalden Topelius i en dikt 1845, kanske som en bildning till finskans ainoa ’den enda’ (→ Aino). I den rikssvenska almanackan 13 juni och i den finlandssvenska 10 maj.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Yoruba, Yoruba: 'difficult birth'
as a nameAfrican Names
beautiful eyed woman
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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)
- Sarah Forbes Bonettab. 1843NGnot in their usual nameWest African princess
- Aina Bergb. 1902SEswimmer (1902–1992)
- Aina Tymchukb. 1973UAUkrainian politician
- Aina Vilberhb. 1985UAUkrainian singer
- Aina Aibab. 1988JPJapanese voice actress
- Aina Dumlaob. 1988PHPhilippine actress
- Aina Kusudab. 1989JPJapanese voice actress and singer
- Aina Yasukunib. 1989JPJapanese seiyū
- Aina Hashimotob. 1992JPJapanese singer and idol
- Aina Suzukib. 1995JPJapanese voice actress and singer
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)
Attested in 89 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 18K | #374 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 17K | #216 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12K | #353 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8.3K | #455 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 3.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 3.6K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 3.4K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 3.3K | #164 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Aina come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Ann Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Aina?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪnə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Aina mean?
- In Finnish, always
- Is Aina a male or female name?
- Aina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Aina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 85 thousand people named Aina in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aina.
- Where is Aina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aina is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 557 people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Aina?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Aina?
- In Spain, the national register counted 17,672 people named Aina, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Aina compared with other names?
- In Spain, Aina is the 611th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ainaThe 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, “Aina” — the 611th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.