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Ayami

#15,249 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Ayami has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #15,249 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Ayami, 2025

1 in 663,000

Ayami over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayami: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Japanese

What Ayami means

Ayami is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ayami is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 28 girls were recorded with the name Ayami between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2022; its best national rank was #12,411 in 2022.

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 Ayami?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,249
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayami 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayami. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayamis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayami was born before 2017 — so the typical Ayami is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
28
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 57.1% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Ayami 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 2022 (7)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#12,411
2022

Spellings of Ayami

Ayami is not the most common spelling — Tami is, with 16.8% against Ayami's 0.01%.

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.

Ayami around the world

Where Ayami 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
    2013–2023
    #6,588
    in 2023
  • 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.

Ayami by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,249
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#12,411
2022
Peak year
2022
7 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Ayami

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

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Sibling names for Ayami

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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