Ái
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to love (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Ái is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,483 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- SESweden1 in 55K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 96K
- DKDenmark1 in 105K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
3,483 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ai in US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)to love
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 35 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ái 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,483 | 1 in 96K | 2.9K | Ai | 72 |
| SE Sweden | 184 | 1 in 55K | 184 | — | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | 100 | 1 in 173K | 91 | Ai | 8 |
| DK Denmark | 56 | 1 in 105K | 47 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 49 | 1 in 4.3M | 95 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 40 | 1 in 139K | 118 | — | 2 |
3,483 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Ái is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: ái, yêu thương; trong bài đặt tên cho Định Viễn quận vương.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: yêu mến, ái tình.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 皚 /皑, 凒
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ntp, obsolete spelling of ááyi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, great-grandfather
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)- Emperor Xiaozong of Songb. 1127not in their usual nameChinese Song dynasty emperor from 1162 to 1189
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ái mean, and where does it come from?
- to love Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ái a male or female name?
- Ái 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 Ái?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Ái, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ai. After it come Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ái most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ái is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 55 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ái?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,483 people named Ái in 2020, about 1 in 96 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ái?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A1iThe 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, “Ái” — ranked 5056th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.