Ài

Name: Ài: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

Meaning: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 愛 /爱 (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ài is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Japan it is the 63rd most common given name. Ài is also written 애희 in Korean (Hangul).

JPJapan≈1 in 530(inferred from the name graph)
MYMalaysia≈1 in 960
TWTaiwan≈1 in 2.3Kfew records

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 Ài 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.

: China (inferred from the name graph)
: 2 (measured from records)
Record sources: 180 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 532 (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Ài in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)

ÀiLatin

애희Ài in Korean (Hangul)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ai in JP Japan, US United States, MY Malaysia and 4 more.

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

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 愛 /爱

Cited for this meaning 1

kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 38 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Ài 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.

Where Ài is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
CN China	—	≈310,000 est.	≈1 in 4.6K	—	Ai	108
JP Japan	#63	≈230,000 est.	≈1 in 532	listed	Ai	154
MY Malaysia	—	≈37,000 est.	≈1 in 964	—	Ai	35
IN India	—	≈13,000 est.	≈1 in 111K	—	Ai	13
TW Taiwan	—	≈10,000 est.	≈1 in 2.3K	—	Ai	79
US United States	—	3,483	1 in 96K	2.9K	Ai	180
SG Singapore	#816	≈1,700 est.	≈1 in 3.5K	—	Ai	55

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. 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 names spelled this way

Ài is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate given name38 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, India, China, Malaysia
Also written Ai, Ái, Aï, Àï, Ǎi
English given name72 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Australia, United Kingdom
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Ai, Aei, A-I, Ái, Ãi
Indonesian given name19 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, United States
Languages: Indonesian, Malay
Also written Ai, 'Ai, Ái, Ai', Aì
Portuguese given name16 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Malaysia, China
Also written Ai, Ái, Âï, Aî, Åì

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

Ài is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In Italian, obsolete spelling of hai, second-person singular present indicative of avere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In scn, second-person singular present indicative of aviri
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rgn, garlic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hvn, fire
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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

Deng Aib. 197CNCao Wei state general and official (197–264)
Emperor Xiaozong of Songb. 1127not in their usual nameChinese Song dynasty emperor from 1162 to 1189
Dai Ailianb. 1916CNnot in their usual nameballerina (1916-2006)

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

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ài under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ài mean, and where does it come from?: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 愛 /爱 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Ài a male or female name?: Ài is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Which countries have the most people named Ài?: Mondonomo estimates about 308 thousand people named Ài in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ai. After it come Japan, Malaysia, India and Taiwan; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Ài?: In the United States, the national register counted 3,483 people named Ài in 2020, about 1 in 96 thousand residents.
How common is Ài compared with other names?: In Japan, Ài is the 63rd most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.

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The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Ài” — the 63rd most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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