Ais
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: handball: the offence of a player touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈaɪz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ais is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- NANamibia≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 38K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 71K
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)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Namibia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
handball: the offence of a player touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ais is read(measured from records)
Ais is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- English24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ais in English.
- Spanish21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ais in Spanish.
- Indonesian10%
handball: the offence of a player touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ice (water in frozen form)
as a wordrecorded as Malaykaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French9.9%
board, plank
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ais in Arabic.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Ais 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 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Ais | 89 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 38K | listed | — | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Ais | 15 |
| ES Spain | 338 | 1 in 148K | 338 | Ais | 7 |
| PH Philippines | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 432K | — | Ais | 10 |
| NA Namibia | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 1 | — | — |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Ais | 1 |
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); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)
Ais 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 Estonian, shaft, any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the drive shaft of an engine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, back: only used in ar ais (back) and le hais (beside, compared with)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of aiō
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 338 | #10,974 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 338 | #10,954 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 1 | #15 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ais mean, and where does it come from?
- handball: the offence of a player touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ais?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈaɪz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ais have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Ais in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ais.
- How common is the name Ais?
- In Spain, the national register counted 338 people named Ais, about 1 in 148 thousand residents.
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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, “Ais”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.