Áine
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Áine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uganda than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Celtic *Aidnā (“radiance”).
- IEIreland≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 64K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 67K
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.
- Uganda (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Aine in US United States, IE Ireland, GB United Kingdom and 3 more and Ainė in LT Lithuania.
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)
From Proto-Celtic *Aidnā (“radiance”).
Sources 1
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Áine 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UG Uganda | #393 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Aine | 12 |
| IE Ireland | #194 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 75 | Aine | 130 |
| US United States | — | 1,546 | 1 in 215K | 1.5K | Aine | 224 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 11 | Aine | 161 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Aine | 30 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 1 | Aine | 61 |
| LT Lithuania | #808 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Ainė | 21 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Áine is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Irish Gaelic: traditional name meaning originally ‘brightness’ or ‘radiance’. It is the traditional name of the queen of the fairies, who plays an important and varied role in Celtic mythology. It has also been used as an Irish form of ANNE .
as a word
In Irish, a female given name from Old Irish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Aine Ni Fhoghludhab. 1880IEIrish language writer
- Áine Hylandb. 1942IEIrish academic
- Áine Bradyb. 1954IEIrish former Fianna Fáil politician (b. 1954)
- Catherine Connollyb. 1955IEnot in their usual namePresident of Ireland since 2025 (born 1955)
- Áine Minogueb. 1977IEIrish musician
- Áine O'Gormanb. 1989IEIrish association football player
- Áine Kelly-Costellob. 1995NZNew Zealand para athlete
- Blinne Ní GhrálaighIEnot in their usual nameIrish attorney
- Áine FureyIEfilm actress/singer from Ireland
- Áine Ní ChíobháinIEIrish artist
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2018 | 74 | #82 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2019 | 62 | #92 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2017 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2016 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2015 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2014 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2013 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2012 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2011 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2010 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2009 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2008 | — | — |
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
- What does the name Áine mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Celtic *Aidnā (“radiance”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Áine a male or female name?
- Áine 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 Áine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.4 thousand people named Áine in Uganda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aine.
- How common is the name Áine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,546 people named Áine in 2020, about 1 in 215 thousand residents.
- How common is Áine compared with other names?
- In Uganda, Áine is the 393rd most common given name of 2,133 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Áine?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A1ineThe 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, “Áine” — the 393rd most common given name in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.