Girl · Basque
Ainara
Say it: ai-NAH-rah
Meaning
Basque 'swallow' (the bird), a dialect form of enara; a 20th-century word-name.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 551 babies given this name since 2003
- At its height in 2018, about 1 in 20,700 girls
- 68 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
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Where this comes from
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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