Aini
surname · Latin script
Meaning: genuine; original; relating
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aini is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 88th most common surname.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 4.5K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 22K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈59,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
genuine; original; relating
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aini 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #88 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | listed | Aini | 156 |
| MY Malaysia | #398 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Aini | 60 |
| CN China | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Aini | 9 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 1 | — | 1 |
| IN India | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 3M | 1 | Aini | 16 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Aini | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Aini | 19 |
| US United States | — | 152 | 1 in 2.2M | 192 | Aini | 37 |
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: the id-github-names register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Aini is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Shona, iron (tool for ironing clothes)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, to specify
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, tauta Hokaido salā Japānā; Japānas seniedzīvotāju pēcteči, asimilējas ar japāņiem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Haņu tautības etniska grupa
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)
- Leah Ainib. 1962ILIsraeli author and poet
- Said Shahabudin Ainib. 1995AFbadminton player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 46 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2014 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1995 | 1 | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- What does the name Aini mean, and where does it come from?
- genuine; original; relating Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- In which country does Aini have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 59 thousand people named Aini in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aini.
- How common is the name Aini?
- In the United States, the national register counted 152 people named Aini in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Aini compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Aini is the 88th most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ainiThe 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, “Aini” — the 88th most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.