Ayelet

#3,345 in 2025Girls' name

Doe, female deer, gazelle

Ayelet has been given to 979 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #3,345 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Ayelet, 2025

1 in 72,100

Ayelet over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayelet: meaning, origin, and history

Doe, female deer, gazelle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ayelet means

Ayelet means “doe, female deer, gazelle”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 979 girls were recorded with the name Ayelet between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,345 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,367 in 2020 to #3,345 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,709 in 2015 to #3,345 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Ayelet?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 72,100; 46 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 34,900; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #3,345; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 49,955 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ayelet 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 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayelet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayelets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayelet was born before 2009 — so the typical Ayelet is around 16 today.

Median birth year: 2009; About 16 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 71.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 979; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (294).

Is Ayelet 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: +1,691; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,022; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +364; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.12×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (46)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,345; 2025

Spellings of Ayelet

Ayelet is not the most common spelling — Adele is, with 85.9% against Ayelet's 2.0%.

Adele85.9%42,362
Arlet6.8%3,346
Aylen2.7%1,349
Ayelet2.0%979
Ayelen1.6%783
Aylee1.1%524

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 Ayelet is used

Across 1910–2025, Ayelet was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 94,052 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 33,333
2California1 in —
3Maryland1 in —
4New Jersey1 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. Ayelet has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ayelet around the world

Where Ayelet 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
2000–2022
#5,670
in 2022
Canada
2012–2021
#3,354
in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ayelet by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #3,345
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,022
Best rank ever: #3,345; 2025
Peak year: 2025; 46 that year
First recorded: 1971
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 979
Count in 2025: 46

Names similar to Ayelet

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

Ayelen Evolet Ayesha Ayeza Starlet Jamilet Skarlet Adalet Ayelin Vyolet Arlet Mahelet Winslet Charlet Yamilet Ayen Sharlet Ayerim Alilet Mahlet Ayeisha Ayeshia Vylet Marlet

Sibling names for Ayelet

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

For a sister

Leonor Karleigh Keren Eloisa Shoshana Nila Kamilah Denisse

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Caesar Tobin Leander Henri Lucio Gray

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