Girl · Basque place-name, uncertain
Ainhoa
Say it: ai-NOH-ah
Meaning
From Ainhoa, a village in Labourd in the French Basque Country with a Marian shrine; the place-name is of uncertain meaning.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Spread from Basque use to the whole of Spain in the late 20th century.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2010s
In the United States
- 1,132 babies given this name since 2003
- At its height in 2019, about 1 in 4,600 girls
- 301 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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