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
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 19 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 392since 1974
Ai over time
Rank among girls' names. Ai has never cracked the top 5,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
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| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | — | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | — | |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | — | |
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | — | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | — | |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | — | |
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| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | — | |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | — | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | — | |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | — | |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | — | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | — | |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | — | |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | — | |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | — | |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | — | |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | — | |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | — | |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | — | |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | — | |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | — | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | — | |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,004 | 19 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | — | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | — | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
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| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | — | |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | — | |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | — | |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
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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.
Where Ai is popular in 1989
No state had 5 or more girls named Ai in 1989, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ai
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2021
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 1991 at #5,004 (19 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 29.1% of all girls named Ai (114) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 12 | #8,061 (1979) | #8,418 |
| 1980s | 82 | #5,912 (1980) | #7,288 |
| 1990s | 107 | #5,004 (1991) | #8,566 |
| 2000s | 114 | #7,142 (2006) | #9,588 |
| 2010s | 60 | #9,736 (2019) | #12,719 |
| 2020s | 17 | #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 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 153,629 of them was named Ai, which outranked 55.1% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,160Yury13
- #6,160Zeina13
- #6,160Zia13
- #6,531Ai12
- #6,531Abygail12
- #6,531Adrean12
- #6,531Aimie12
- #6,955Aasha11
- #6,955Abbygail11
- #6,955Abeni11
Tied with 423 names at #6,531; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.