Ainslie
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ainslie is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Likely from Annesley, Nottinghamshire; recorded as de Anslei in 1221.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Likely from Annesley, Nottinghamshire; recorded as de Anslei in 1221.
Sources 1
- Scottish Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronetb. 1730GBBritish politician (1730–1812)
- Whitelaw Ainslieb. 1767Surgeon, writer (1767-1837)
- Montague Ainslieb. 1823INEnglish cricketer (1823-1896)
- George Ainslieb. 1838USAmerican politician from Idaho (1838-1913)
- Douglas Ainslieb. 1865GBPoet, translator, critic, diplomat (1865–1948)
- Brodie Ainslieb. 1891AUAustralian rules footballer
- Jean Ainslieb. 1920GBactress (1920-2001)
- Scott Ainslieb. 1968GBBritish politician (born 1968)
- Ben Ainslieb. 1977GBBritish competitive sailor
- George AinslieGBBritish Army officer (died 1804)
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 20 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,237 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,648 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2008 | 2 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Scottish Surnames (Ross, 1994) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Ainslie mean, and where does it come from?
- Likely from Annesley, Nottinghamshire; recorded as de Anslei in 1221. Recorded by Scottish Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Ainslie?
- In the etymology graph, Ansley is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ainslie have the most bearers?
- Ainslie is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ainslieThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ainslie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.