Ainhoa
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ainhoa is a given name, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Catalan, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Origine basque; référence à un village lié à une apparition de la Vierge.
- ESSpain1 in 965◐
- ECEcuador1 in 3.3K
- ARArgentina1 in 35K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈58K ●
- Sources
- 163 ●
- 1 in 965 ◐
across 11 countries
48K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin●
Origine basque; référence à un village lié à une apparition de la Vierge.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 2 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #170 | 51,853 | 36K rec. | 1 in 965 | 52K | Ainhoa | 163 |
| AR Argentina | — | 19,602 | 8.1K rec. | — | 863 | Ainhoa | 35 |
| EC Ecuador | #824 | 5,128△ | 30 rec. | 1 in 3.3K | 5.1K | Ainhoa | 19 |
| CL Chile | — | 2,082 | 63 rec. | — | 169 | Ainhoa | 27 |
| FR France | — | 1,180 | 1.9K rec. | 1 in 57K | 1.2K | Ainhoa | 131 |
| MX Mexico | — | 1,065 | 146 rec. | — | 2 | Ainhoa | 36 |
| UY Uruguay | #649 | 819 | 260 rec. | — | 3 | Ainhoa | 12 |
| PE Peru | — | 670 | 115 rec. | — | — | Ainhoa | 16 |
| US United States | — | 638 | 435 rec. | — | 268 | Ainhoa | 94 |
| PY Paraguay | — | 388 | 308 rec. | — | — | Ainhoa | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | 284 | 244 rec. | — | 1 | Ainhoa | 53 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 273 | 246 rec. | — | — | Ainhoa | 17 |
Roughly 52K people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 965). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish220K75%
- Catalan52K18%
- English8.5K3%
- French6.8K2%
- Portuguese1.4K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 219,998 | 75% |
| Catalan | 51,861 | 18% |
| English | 8,481 | 3% |
| French | 6,841 | 2% |
| Portuguese | 1,401 | 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●
Ainhoa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Basque place-name used as a given name; Basque origin.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Reference to the Virgin Mary
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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 |
|---|---|
| 1976 | 1 |
| 1978 | 1 |
| 1980 | 2 |
| 1982 | 4 |
| 1983 | 3 |
| 1985 | 1 |
| 1988 | 1 |
| 1989 | 2 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1991 | 15 |
| 1992 | 3 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 2 |
| 1996 | 3 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 4 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2002 | 2 |
| 2003 | 12 |
| 2004 | 21 |
| 2005 | 15 |
| 2006 | 26 |
| 2007 | 23 |
| 2008 | 17 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 22 |
| 2011 | 21 |
| 2012 | 37 |
| 2013 | 46 |
| 2014 | 53 |
| 2015 | 26 |
AR datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) — 33 years between 1976–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ainhoa Arteta Ibarrolaburub. 1964ESSpanish singer and actress
- Ainhoa Artolazabalb. 1972ESSpanish bicycle racer
- Ainhoa Goñib. 1979ESSpanish tennis player
- Ainhoa Santamaría Ballesterosb. 1980ESSpanish actress
- Ainhoa Cantalapiedrab. 1980ESSpanish singer and songwriter
- Ainhoa Aldanondob. 1981ESSpanish actress
- Sara Sálamob. 1992ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Ainhoa Fernándezb. 1994ESAndorran association football player and referee
- Ainhoa Hernándezb. 1994ESSpanish handball player
- Ainhoa Sánchezb. 2004ESdaughter of Pedro Sánchez and Begoña Gómez
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 44 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 52K | #170 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 51K | #93 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 5.1K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 5.1K | #348 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2019 | 1.5K | #166 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2020 | 1.3K | #180 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.2K | #1,293 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2018 | 976 | #270 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2021 | 907 | #222 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 863 | #169 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2022 | 717 | #248 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2023 | 704 | #238 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 292 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ainhoa?
- We estimate roughly 58 thousand people bear Ainhoa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ainhoa have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 52 thousand people bear Ainhoa in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ainhoa.
- Where is Ainhoa most common?
- Ainhoa is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 965 people carrying it.
- How common is Ainhoa compared with other names?
- In Spain, Ainhoa is the 170th most common given name of 161,694 given names recorded there.
- Is Ainhoa a male or female name?
- Ainhoa 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 Ainhoa mean?
- Recorded meaning: Origine basque; référence à un village lié à une apparition de la Vierge.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ainhoa” — the 170th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.