Aine
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Irish Gaelic; 'brightness, radiance'; name of the queen of the fairies in Celtic mythology
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uganda than in any other country.
- 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 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)
Irish Gaelic; 'brightness, radiance'; name of the queen of the fairies in Celtic mythology
Sources 1
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Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Aine is read(measured from records)
Aine is one spelling over 2 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.
- English67%
Irish Gaelic; 'brightness, radiance'; name of the queen of the fairies in Celtic mythology
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Irish-Scottish Gaelic; harmony or the cheerful, handsome one.
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- Spanish9.9%
acronym of antiinflamatorio no esteroideo
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Aine 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); the lt-vlkk-vardai 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)
Aine 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 Irish, "Joy"; "praise"; also "fasting". Said to be queen of the South Munster fairies.
as a nameIrish first names
In gil, woman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, matter, material, substance
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 Humbleb. 1967CAbadminton player
- Aine Ni Mhuiriactor
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 51 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #9,125 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2017 | 75 | #82 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 39 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 22 | #9,125 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 11 | #161 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 3 | #790 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1961 | 1 | — |
| LT Lithuania | VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names) | — | — | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2019 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname 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 Aine mean, and where does it come from?
- Irish Gaelic; 'brightness, radiance'; name of the queen of the fairies in Celtic mythology Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Aine a male or female name?
- Aine 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 Aine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.4 thousand people named Aine in Uganda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aine.
- How common is the name Aine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,546 people named Aine in 2020, about 1 in 215 thousand residents.
- How common is Aine compared with other names?
- In Uganda, Aine is the 393rd most common given name of 2,133 given names recorded there.
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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, “Aine” — the 393rd most common given name in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.