Ai

Last seen for girls in 2021 at #9,562 · Last seen for boys in 1987 at #6,951
Given to girls 97.3% of the time

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Peak · girls
1991 · 19 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
392
since 1974

Ai over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Ai has never cracked the top 5,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201991peak #5,004, 1991girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
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2021#9,56210
2020#12,1427
2019#9,73610
2018
2017#14,1246
2016#14,3316
2015#13,0067
2014
2013#11,0009
2012#13,4837
2011#14,8246
2010#11,2469
2009#10,67910
2008#13,8327
2007#10,12911
2006#7,14217
2005#8,33013
2004#8,25913
2003#10,4259
2002#7,44414
2001#12,0567
2000#7,58013
1999#9,4799
1998#9,2609
1997#12,0706
1996#11,8076
1995#7,51411
1994#5,24918
1993#7,49811
1992#10,4797
1991#5,00419
1990#7,30311
1989#6,53112
1988#8,3918
1987#9,8256#6,9515
1986#6,61210
1985#8,3187
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1982#7,4698
1981#6,32310#5,4686
1980#5,91211
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First appearance
1974

The first year at least five girls were named Ai! It came in at #8,775, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1974–1978, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

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Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2021
Rise & fade · girls
17 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1974
  • Peaked 1991 at #5,004 (19 births)
  • Births halved by 1992, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 98,685
  • Highest: 1 in 98,685 girls born in 1991 were named Ai (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 164,086 girls born in 2021 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 29.1% of all girls named Ai (114) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s12#8,061 (1979)#8,418
1980s82#5,912 (1980)#7,288
1990s107#5,004 (1991)#8,566
2000s114#7,142 (2006)#9,588
2010s60#9,736 (2019)#12,719
2020s17#9,562 (2021)#10,852

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ai in 1991

girls
#5,004
19 births · 1 in 98,685 girls

Top girls' names in 1991

  1. #1Ashley43,477
  2. #2Jessica43,398
  3. #3Brittany29,093
  4. #4Amanda28,896
  5. #5Samantha25,651
  6. #6Sarah25,233
  7. #7Stephanie22,775
  8. #8Jennifer20,673
  9. #9Elizabeth20,395
  10. #10Emily20,311
  11. #5,004Ai19
More about 1991

girls

1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 98,685 of them was named Ai, which outranked 67.6% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ai
  1. #4,808Yanelly20
  2. #4,808Yanina20
  3. #4,808Zabrina20
  4. #5,004Ai19
  5. #5,004Adelia19
  6. #5,004Albany19
  7. #5,004Alexas19
  8. #5,181Adena18
  9. #5,181Aditi18
  10. #5,181Adora18

Tied with 176 names at #5,004; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1990
Risers
  1. 1,600Rebeccah#2,600#1,000
  2. 1,221Ieshia#1,938#717
  3. 1,135Miriah#2,081#946
  4. 861Alexus#1,813#952
  5. 676Chynna#1,512#836
Fallers
  1. 568Infant#432#1,000
  2. 510Lakeshia#897#1,407
  3. 466Latifah#701#1,167
  4. 432Martika#757#1,189
  5. 416Cecily#575#991

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1991