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Unai

boy name
Origin
Basque
Syllables
2
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady

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Meaning

cowherd, herdsman (Basque); a pastoral word-name that reads as modern rather than rustic

How popular is Unai around the world?

In the United States, Unai is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025. In Spain, 26,996 residents are named Unai, the 122nd most common name among men, with a mean age of 20.9 years.

Unai is on the official records of the United States, Spain, Argentina, France, Mexico City, Chile and Brazil.

United States

on record

In the United States, Unai is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025.

1890srare in US records2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Unai has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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Spain

#66 · 2024

In Spain, 26,996 residents are named Unai, the 122nd most common name among men, with a mean age of 20.9 years.
In Spain, Unai was the 66th most common name among boys 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

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Argentina

1 in 23,000

In Argentina, 29 newborns were given the name Unai in 2024.

2012peak 20202024

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

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France

1 in 26,000

In France, about 25 boys named Unai were born in 2025, ranked 1,417th among boys that year.

1990peak 2025

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. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)

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Mexico City City

1 in 39,000

In Mexico City, there were 3 registrations of Unai in 2022.
The count never rose above 9 in a year, too few to chart.

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 (1 registration through 3 Mar) is excluded as partial. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023

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Chile

1 in 59,000

In Chile, 3 boys were registered as Unai in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.

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

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Brazil

At the 2022 census, 22 people in Brazil were named Unai, ranked 116,443rd, with a median age of 13.

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

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England and Wales

last on record 2018

Unai is not on the 2025 record for England and Wales, where spellings under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 4 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

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Not on the record in Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.

Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years.

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