Ainara
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Meaning
the swallow (Basque enara); a bird name in the Basque tradition
The story
With Ainara, the dictionary leads outdoors. The name is a Basque variant of Enara, meaning "swallow," and the bird offers an image more particular than a general love of nature. SEO/BirdLife calls the barn swallow enara arrunta in Basque. This is the swallow that builds a sheltered cup of mud against a wall or on a beam, sometimes in a barn or shed. Its nest can be repaired and used again. There is a pleasing change of scale here: a name that suggests open air also brings us close to a small, carefully made structure. Flight is only part of the picture. Ainara leads back to the swallow through Enara, and the barn swallow makes that connection tangible: mud shaped into a cup, a sheltered place against a wall, and a nest that can be used again.
How popular is Ainara around the world?
In the United States, Ainara is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025. In Puerto Rico, 76 babies were named Ainara in 2025, and 571 have carried the name since 1998.
Ainara is on the official records of the United States, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Montevideo, Mexico City, Spain, Chile, Canada, England and Wales and Brazil.
United States
on record
In the United States, Ainara is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Ainara peaked in the 2020s.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Puerto Rico
1 in 240
In Puerto Rico, 76 babies were named Ainara in 2025, and 571 have carried the name since 1998.
share of that year’s births on record
First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)
Argentina
1 in 670
In Argentina, 982 newborns were given the name Ainara in 2024.
share of that year’s name registrations
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Montevideo City
1 in 1,0002011
In Montevideo, 22 girls named Ainara were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Mexico City City
1 in 1,200
In Mexico City, there were 96 registrations of Ainara in 2022.
share of that year’s registrations in the city
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023 (8 registrations through 3 Mar) is excluded as partial. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
Spain
#79 · 2024
In Spain, 27,446 residents are named Ainara, the 155th most common name among women, with a mean age of 19.2 years.
In Spain, Ainara was the 79th most common name among girls born in 2024.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Chile
1 in 2,600
In Chile, 68 girls were registered as Ainara in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
share of that year’s name registrations
First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021
Canada
1 in 73,000
In Canada, 5 girls named Ainara were born in 2024, ranked 3,457th among girls that year.
The count never rose above 8 in a year, too few to chart.
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
England and Wales
1 in 200,000
In England and Wales, 3 girls named Ainara were born in 2025, ranked 5,927th among girls that year.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Brazil
1 in 1M
At the 2022 census, 290 people in Brazil were named Ainara, ranked 19,518th, with a median age of 20.
Among people named Ainara living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
The census also counted 25 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Not on the record in Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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