Ain
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/ɛ̃/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Ain is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 68th most common given name.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 840(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.1K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 30K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ain itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 328 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 835 (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 named N., est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled N. in NL Netherlands, DE Germany, ID Indonesia and 2 more and Aind in IN India.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ain 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 6.9K | Aind | 108 |
| BR Brazil | — | 17,114as Eni | 1 in 12K | 22K | — | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 11 | N. | 78 |
| DE Germany | #660 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 1 | N. | 105 |
| ID Indonesia | #632 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | N. | 107 |
| BE Belgium | #653 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 14 | N. | 35 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 835 | 1.9K | — | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | #68 | 130as N | 1 in 133K | 75 | N. | 63 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); This page lists the top 100 names in Malaysia for boys and girls, published by Students of the World.. 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)Ain is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Ain (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, department, river, France
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In cdo, to cook hastily in boiling water, te scald
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In English, Alternative form of ayin (“Semitic letter”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, Belonging to, or on behalf of, a specified person (especially oneself); own.
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)- Ain-Ervin Mereb. 1903GBEstonian SS officer (1903–1969)
- Ain Kaalepb. 1926EEEstonian writer and politician (1926–2020)
- Ain Lutseppb. 1954EEEstonian actor and politician (born 1954)
- Ain Tammusb. 1969EEEstonian footballer (born 1969)
- Ain Mäeotsb. 1971EEEstonian actor and director (born 1971)
- Park Ah-inb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean stage, television and film actress
- Rucca Pageb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
- Yoo Ah-inb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (born 1986)
- Ahinb. 1999KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Cho Ah-inb. 2010KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
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)Evidence
(measured from records)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
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)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Ain?
- In French /ɛ̃/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Ain have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named N. in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ain?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 17,114 people named Eni in 2022, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Ain compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Ain is the 68th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ain?
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/ainThe 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, “Ain” — the 68th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.