At a Glance: Name: Ai – Meaning: love or affection – Origin: Japanese – Gender: Girl – Pronunciation: EYE
Ai is a Japanese girl's name meaning “love or affection”. It appears in 3 of our baby name lists.
Meaning & Origin of Ai
Meaning: Love or affection.
Origin: Japanese.
A common claim: Commonly said to simply mean 'love' Actually: That only holds for the Japanese reading (愛); as a Chinese or Vietnamese name (艾) the same spelling doesn't mean 'love' at all.
Source: Wiktionary, Wikipedia.
How to Pronounce Ai
Phonetic: EYE IPA: /ˈaɪ/
Popularity of Ai
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration birth-name data, 1974–2021.
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