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Ayame

#7,536 in 2025Girls' name

Iris (flower)

Ayame has been given to 333 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #7,536 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Ayame, 2025

1 in 237,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayame: meaning, origin, and history

Iris (flower)

Japanese

What Ayame means

Ayame means “iris (flower)”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ayame is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 333 girls were recorded with the name Ayame between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2006; its best national rank was #4,437 in 1920.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,644 in 2020 to #7,536 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,061 in 2015 to #7,536 in 2025.

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 Ayame?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,536
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayame 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayame. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayames were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayame was born before 2011 — so the typical Ayame is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
312
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2000s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (126).

Is Ayame 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
+490
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,108
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+525
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.7%
Peak was 2006 (19)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,437
1920

Spellings of Ayame

Ayame is not the most common spelling — Jayme is, with 21.3% against Ayame's 0.50%.

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 Ayame is used

Across 1910–2025, Ayame was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 784,507 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 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. Ayame has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ayame around the world

Where Ayame 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.

  • France
    2003–2025
    #5,007
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ayame by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,536
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,108
Best rank ever
#4,437
1920
Peak year
2006
19 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
333
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Ayame

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

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Sibling names for Ayame

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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