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Ayub

#1,854 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Ayyub

Ayub has been given to 1,634 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #1,854 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 94 recorded.

Babies named Ayub, 2025

1 in 39,000

Ayub over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayub: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Ayyub

Arabic and West Circassian

What Ayub means

Ayub is a alternate transcription of Ayyub.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ayub → Ayyub → Job. The family’s meaning is “to be an enemy + enemy”, recorded in English with the source elements אָיַב and אוֹיֵב.

Origin, language, and formation

Ayub is used in Indonesian, Malay and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic and West Circassian.

Ayub comes through Arabic أَيُّوب.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ayyub.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Ayub is pronounced /ˈajub/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,634 boys were recorded with the name Ayub between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 94 in 2018; its best national rank was #1,681 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,948 in 2020 to #1,854 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,957 in 2015 to #1,854 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.

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How common is Ayub?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,000
85 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 20,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,854
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayub 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayub. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayubs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayub was born before 2015 — so the typical Ayub is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,634
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (743).

Is Ayub 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
+316
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+94
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+103
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.4%
Peak was 2018 (94)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,681
2018

Spellings of Ayub

Ayub is not the most common spelling — Ayan is, with 19.9% against Ayub's 7.9%.

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 Ayub is used

Across 2016–2025, Ayub was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 1,075 boys, against 1 in 11,923 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

093 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 1,075
  2. 2Ohio1 in 9,091
  3. 3Washington1 in 10,000
  4. 4Nebraska1 in 14,286
  5. 5New York1 in 16,667
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 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.

Ayub around the world

Where Ayub 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
    #507
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2022
    #703
    in 2022
  • France
    2008–2025
    #2,544
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2022–2025
    #417
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,331
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Ayub by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,854
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 94
Best rank ever
#1,681
2018
Peak year
2018
94 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,634
Count in 2025
85

Names similar to Ayub

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

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Sibling names for Ayub

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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