Aine
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aine is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ireland. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Irish Gaelic; 'brightness, radiance'; name of the queen of the fairies in Celtic mythology.
- IEIreland1 in 952◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 52K
- AUAustralia1 in 80K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.6K ●
- Sources
- 191 ●
- 1 in 123K ◐
across 7 countries
16K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ainė in LT Lithuania.
Meaning & origin●
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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE Ireland | #135 | 9,799 | 2.6K rec. | — | 75 | Aine | 119 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,943 | 2.2K rec. | — | 11 | Aine | 119 |
| US United States | — | 1,524 | 6.2K rec. | 1 in 218K | 1.5K | Aine | 191 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,447 | 1.3K rec. | — | 1 | Aine | 55 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,074 | 632 rec. | — | — | Aine | 23 |
| AR Argentina | — | 834 | 503 rec. | — | 14 | Aine | 29 |
| MX Mexico | — | 629 | 273 rec. | — | 1 | Aine | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 607△ | 180 rec. | 1 in 349K | 759 | Aine | 50 |
| ES Spain | — | 407△ | 76 rec. | 1 in 123K | 407 | Aine | 23 |
| CA Canada | — | 307 | 165 rec. | — | 1 | Aine | 47 |
| JP Japan | — | 305 | 283 rec. | — | — | Aine | 31 |
| PE Peru | — | 247 | 217 rec. | — | — | Aine | 11 |
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Languages●
- English21K54%
- Portuguese8.2K21%
- Spanish3.5K9%
- French6742%
- Catalan4071%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 20,892 | 54% |
| Portuguese | 8,239 | 21% |
| Spanish | 3,534 | 9% |
| French | 674 | 2% |
| Catalan | 407 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Aine 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 Irish, "Joy"; "praise"; also "fasting". Said to be queen of the South Munster fairies.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, Irish-Scottish Gaelic; harmony or the cheerful, handsome one.
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In Spanish, acronym of antiinflamatorio no esteroideo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1970 | 7 |
| 1971 | 8 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 9 |
| 1979 | 8 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 12 |
| 1990 | 9 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 17 |
| 1993 | 14 |
| 1994 | 15 |
| 1995 | 26 |
| 1996 | 32 |
| 1997 | 31 |
| 1998 | 48 |
| 1999 | 47 |
| 2000 | 46 |
| 2001 | 55 |
| 2002 | 58 |
| 2003 | 67 |
| 2004 | 68 |
| 2005 | 47 |
| 2006 | 62 |
| 2007 | 65 |
| 2008 | 52 |
| 2009 | 57 |
| 2010 | 50 |
| 2011 | 48 |
| 2012 | 49 |
| 2013 | 44 |
| 2014 | 54 |
| 2015 | 44 |
| 2016 | 33 |
| 2017 | 40 |
| 2018 | 29 |
| 2019 | 49 |
| 2020 | 47 |
| 2021 | 45 |
| 2022 | 64 |
| 2023 | 58 |
| 2024 | 51 |
| 2025 | 39 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 53 years between 1966–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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●
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 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 759 | #5,547 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 738 | #11,187 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 607 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 596 | #11,693 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 407 | #5,266 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 286 | #3,131 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 90 | #18,778 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2017 | 75 | #82 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 62 | #10,417 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 51 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 41 | #15,574 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 328 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Aine?
- We estimate roughly 2.6 thousand people bear Aine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Aine have the most bearers?
- Aine is most frequently recorded in Ireland, where it is most often spelled aine.
- How common is Aine compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Aine is the 135th most common given name of 13,994 given names recorded there.
- 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.
- What does the name Aine mean?
- Recorded meaning: Irish Gaelic; 'brightness, radiance'; name of the queen of the fairies in Celtic mythology
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 135th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.