Given name
Aitor
Aitor is a masculine given name from Basque. It is used in Spanish and Basque.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aitor through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 94
- 94 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #8,939 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +3%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,939 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Aitor
- Txiki BegiristainSpanish association football playerborn 1964
- Aitor KarankaSpanish association football player and managerborn 1973
- Aitor OcioSpanish footballerborn 1976
- Aitor BuñuelSpanish association football playerborn 1998
- Aitor GonzálezSpanish road racing cyclistborn 1975
- Aitor López RekarteSpanish footballerborn 1975
- Aitor CantalapiedraSpanish association football playerborn 1996
- Aitor FernándezSpanish association football playerborn 1991
- Aitor Hernándezroad bicycle racerborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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