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Ayn

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Ayn has been given to 146 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1962, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Ayn, 2020

1 in 557,000

Ayn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayn: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ayn means

Ayn is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ayn is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ayn is pronounced /aɪn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 146 girls were recorded with the name Ayn between 1946 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1962; its best national rank was #4,280 in 1962.

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 Ayn?

Ayn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 269,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayn 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 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayn was born before 1970 — so the typical Ayn is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
135
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Ayn 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1962 (10)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,280
1962

Ayn 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
#4,280
1962
Peak year
1962
10 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
146
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ayn

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

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Sibling names for Ayn

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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