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Ayah

#870 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Aya

Ayah has been given to 4,814 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #870 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 309 recorded.

Babies named Ayah, 2025

1 in 10,700

Ayah over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Aya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ayah means

Ayah is a alternate transcription of Aya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Ayah is a alternate transcription of Aya. Aya has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,809 girls were recorded with the name Ayah between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 309 in 2025; its best national rank was #870 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,106 in 2020 to #870 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,522 in 2015 to #870 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Ayah between 2020 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2020; its best national rank was #12,209 in 2020.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ayah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,700
309 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,200
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#870
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,438 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,438 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayah was born before 2015 — so the typical Ayah is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,809
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (1,544).

Is Ayah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+94
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+236
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+652
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (309)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#870
2025

Spellings of Ayah

Ayah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 38.8% against Ayah's 0.17%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ayah is used

Across 2016–2025, Ayah was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 2,273 girls, against 1 in 6,179 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

244 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 2,273
  2. 2Maryland1 in 3,333
  3. 3Virginia1 in 3,333
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 3,448
  5. 5Illinois1 in 3,704
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 4,000
  7. 7New York1 in 4,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 4,348

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Ayah around the world

Where Ayah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #147
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1999–2025
    #359
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1989–2025
    #800
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #383
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Ayah

People whose public names include Ayah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ayah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#870
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 236
Best rank ever
#870
2025
Peak year
2025
309 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,809
Count in 2025
309

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,209
2020
Peak year
2020
5 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ayah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AyatAyaNyahAyanaKyahAyanMyahAyalaMiyahAmyahRyahNiyahMayahKiyahAyannaLiyahAryahAmayahAnayahAyaniAnyahAyariAlyahRayah

Names with a curve like Ayah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ayah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KeziahArayaAndieAriadnaSoleilZoyaSapphireGiuliaViviannaRainCieloAriela

Sibling names for Ayah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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