Name Awesome

Ayaka

Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Ayaka has been given to 442 babies in the U.S. since 1985. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2013, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Ayaka, 2021

1 in 565,000

Ayaka over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayaka: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Ayaka means

Ayaka is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include colour, flower.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ayaka is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ä.jä.kä/ for Ayaka.

Origin, language, and formation

Ayaka is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 442 girls were recorded with the name Ayaka between 1985 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2013; its best national rank was #5,685 in 1991.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ayaka?

Ayaka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayaka 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 2021 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayaka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayakas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayaka was born before 2003 — so the typical Ayaka is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
442
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (156).

Is Ayaka 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2013 (20)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,685
1991

Spellings of Ayaka

Ayaka is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 16.6% against Ayaka's 0.11%.

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 Ayaka is used

Across 1910–2025, Ayaka was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 410,584 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Ayaka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ayaka around the world

Where Ayaka 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
    1997–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • Canada
    2013–2013
    #3,199
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    2007–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ayaka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,685
1991
Peak year
2013
20 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
442
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ayaka

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

AyariAyaniAyameAyaneAyaatAyaanAyanahAyalaAyanAyakoAyaanaAyanniAyaraAyannahAyatAnnakaAyashaAyanoAyakAyamiAnakaAyahChakaAyana

Sibling names for Ayaka

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

Explore around Ayaka

Top names of 2013, Ayaka's peak yearThe 2010s in fullOther names that peaked in 1991Girls' names starting with A