Ayat

What Ayat means

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

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #3,059 in 2015, #1,160 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ayat?

US: Rising: up from #3059 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #585 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 200 girls got the name (#1160 that year). First in the US records in 1987.

How common

• About 1 in 8,036 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 799 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,789 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 VA (0.56 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.42 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.3 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Ayat is #1160 in the US and #158 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 Ayat were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ayyat0 US · 3 E&W

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 Ayat

Girls

• Sutton#181“south + town”^*
• Catalina#111Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #325 in 2015, #111 in 2025
• Esther#119“star”^*
• Melody#79Editor’s note Up from #148 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 520 US girls in the 2025 records
• Magnolia#124Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #634 in 2015, #124 in 2025
• Iris#61“rainbow”^*

For a brother

• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*
• Waylon#56Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #222 in 2015, #56 in 2025
• Matias#170From Biblical Hebrew, meaning “gift of Yahweh”^*
• Hayes#162“brushwood”^*
• Leo#19“lion”^*
• Arlo#148Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #15 vs #148 in 2025

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 Ayat’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.