Ainhoa
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Meaning
from the Basque village of Ainhoa, associated with local devotion to the Virgin Mary
The story
Ainhoa comes from a village in the French Basque Country, near the Spanish border. The village gave its name to girls through local devotion to the Virgin Mary. Above the village, a chapel on Atsulai remains a destination for processions.
A Basque account of the name says that local pilgrims once travelled to Arantzazu, across the border. When war closed that route, they established a sanctuary nearer home, continuing their devotion to the Virgin Mary at Ainhoa.
According to the Eusko Ikaskuntza cultural encyclopedia, a painting depicting the local tradition of the Virgin’s appearance at Ainhoa was hidden during the French Revolution and later returned to the sanctuary.
Opera singer Ainhoa Arteta is a later bearer. Her training began in her father’s choir and continued into an international career, including the role of Roxane in the opera Cyrano de Bergerac at Madrid’s Teatro Real.
How popular is Ainhoa around the world?
In the United States, Ainhoa is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025. In Puerto Rico, 29 babies were named Ainhoa in 2025, and 493 have carried the name since 1998.
Ainhoa is on the official records of the United States, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Spain, Chile, Mexico City, Montevideo, France, Canada and Brazil.
United States
on record
In the United States, Ainhoa is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Ainhoa peaked in the 2020s.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Puerto Rico
1 in 620
In Puerto Rico, 29 babies were named Ainhoa in 2025, and 493 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 770
In Argentina, 863 newborns were given the name Ainhoa 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
Spain
1 in 860
In Spain, 51,853 residents are named Ainhoa, the 90th most common name among women, with a mean age of 23.5 years.
In Spain, Ainhoa was the 83rd 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 1,100
In Chile, 169 girls were registered as Ainhoa 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
Mexico City City
1 in 2,400
In Mexico City, there were 49 registrations of Ainhoa 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 (2 registrations through 3 Mar) is excluded as partial. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
Montevideo City
1 in 4,9002011
In Montevideo, 5 girls named Ainhoa were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.
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
France
1 in 32,000
In France, about 20 girls named Ainhoa were born in 2025, ranked 1,645th among girls that year.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. This registry counts each spelling separately; the figures above are for the exact spelling Ainhoa, and accented spellings are separate names. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)
Canada
1 in 61,000
In Canada, 6 girls named Ainhoa were born in 2024, ranked 3,027th 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)
Austria
last on record 2022
Ainhoa is not on the 2025 record for Austria, which publishes every first name down to a single birth, so the name was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Brazil
At the 2022 census, 46 people in Brazil were named Ainhoa, ranked 70,533rd, with a median age of 6.
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
England and Wales
last on record 2023
Ainhoa is not on the 2025 record for England and Wales, where spellings under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
share of that year’s name registrations
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
Poland
last on record 2014
Ainhoa is not on the 2025 record for Poland, where names given fewer than 2 times in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)
Not on the record in Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
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 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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