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Ayyub

#2,800 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Job

Ayyub has been given to 475 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #2,800 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Ayyub, 2025

1 in 73,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayyub: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Job

Arabic and Hebrew

What Ayyub means

Ayyub is a form of Job.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through 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

Ayyub is used in English. Its origins include Arabic and Hebrew.

Ayyub comes through Arabic أَيُّوب.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Job.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 475 boys were recorded with the name Ayyub between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,676 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,578 in 2020 to #2,800 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,532 in 2015 to #2,800 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 Ayyub?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 73,700
45 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 38,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,800
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
51,066 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayyub 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 51,066 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayyub. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayyubs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayyub was born before 2018 — so the typical Ayyub is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
43.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
475
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Choose a decade

2020s — 43.8% of all recorded uses (208).

Is Ayyub 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
−124
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+778
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,732
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.81×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.8%
Peak was 2024 (49)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,676
2024

Spellings of Ayyub

Ayyub is not the most common spelling — Ayub is, with 51.4% against Ayyub's 14.9%.

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 Ayyub is used

Across 1910–2025, Ayyub was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 641,106 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Ayyub has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ayyub around the world

Where Ayyub 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
    #342
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #535
    in 2024
  • France
    2001–2025
    #2,219
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ayyub by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,800
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 778
Best rank ever
#2,676
2024
Peak year
2024
49 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
475
Count in 2025
45

Names similar to Ayyub

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

AyyanAyubAyyashAyyadAyyoubMuhammadayub

Sibling names for Ayyub

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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