Ayyub

What Ayyub means

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

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1993, with 5 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ayyub?

US: Rising: up from #5507 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #656 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 49 boys got the name (#2674 that year). First in the US records in 1993.

How common

• About 1 in 37,957 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,193 baby boys in England and Wales 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 MI (0.17 per 1,000 boys), PA (0.1 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.09 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Ayyub is #2798 in the US and #342 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Ayyub were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ayub85 US · 76 E&W
• Ayouba6 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.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Ayub
• Ayoub
• Ayoob
• Ayyoub
• Ayyoob

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Ayyub

Boys

• Laith#893Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #254 vs #893 in 2025
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Gideon#337Editor’s note Down from #327 in 2015 to #337 in 2025 in the US
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Yosef#663Editor’s note Up from #708 in 2015 to #663 in 2025 in the US
• Eliel#585“El is my lord”^*

For a sister

• Chaya#587“living”^*
• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Amirah#490Variant of Amira, meaning “princess”^*
• Elliott#599“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Leyla#611Editor’s note Up from #782 in 2015 to #611 in 2025 in the US
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ayyub’s. Rank is US 2025.