Ayah

What Ayah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ayah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #147 vs #869 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ayah?

US: Rising: up from #1520 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #441 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 309 girls got the name (#869 that year). First in the US records in 1986.

How common

• About 1 in 5,202 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 749 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,988 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MN (0.74 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.55 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.45 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Ayah is #869 in the US and #147 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Ayah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Aya449 US · 212 E&W
• Aiya33 US · 6 E&W
• Aiyah16 US · 3 E&W
• Iyah15 US · 3 E&W
• Iya14 US
• Oya6 US
• Ayia5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ayah

Girls

• Sage#160“sedge”^*
• Saylor#217“dancer, acrobat”^*
• Alani#161Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #529 in 2015, #161 in 2025
• Noa#226Hawaiian, meaning “commoner, free man”^*
• Haven#190Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Maeve#76“intoxicating”^*

For a brother

• Cyrus#268Editor’s note Up from #469 in 2015 to #268 in 2025 in the US
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Tate#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #420 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Crew#256“weir”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ayah’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.