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Ayrton

#2,995 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Aírton

Ayrton has been given to 862 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #2,995 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Ayrton, 2025

1 in 80,900

Ayrton over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayrton: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Aírton

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ayrton means

Ayrton is a variant of Aírton.

Origin, language, and formation

Ayrton is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aírton.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Ayrton is pronounced /aˈiʁ.tõ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 862 boys were recorded with the name Ayrton between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2012; its best national rank was #2,443 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,549 in 2020 to #2,995 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,649 in 2015 to #2,995 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 Ayrton?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 80,900
41 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 41,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,995
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
56,047 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayrton sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayrton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayrtons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayrton was born before 2012 — so the typical Ayrton is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
862
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (318).

Is Ayrton 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
+533
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,554
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−346
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
89.1%
Peak was 2012 (46)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,443
1995

Spellings of Ayrton

Ayrton is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 56.4% against Ayrton's 0.08%.

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 Ayrton is used

Across 1910–2025, Ayrton was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 261,913 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —
  4. 4Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Ayrton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ayrton around the world

Where Ayrton 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
    1996–2025
    #1,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2017
    #733
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    1994–2012
    #718
    in 2012
  • France
    1985–2025
    #1,401
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1985–2013
    #389
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ayrton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,995
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,554
Best rank ever
#2,443
1995
Peak year
2012
46 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
862
Count in 2025
41

Names similar to Ayrton

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

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Sibling names for Ayrton

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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