Ayah
#869 for girls in 2025, 309 births · Last seen for boys in 2020 at #12,022
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 309 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,809since 1986
Ayah over time
Rank among girls' names. Ayah has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #869 | 309 | — | |
| 2024 | #961 | 271 | — | |
| 2023 | #996 | 255 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,043 | 245 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,038 | 243 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,105 | 221 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #1,079 | 233 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,288 | 177 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,321 | 176 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,386 | 168 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,520 | 148 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,736 | 120 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,576 | 136 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,651 | 129 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,804 | 112 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,603 | 135 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,695 | 131 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,824 | 118 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,713 | 127 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,702 | 123 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,525 | 135 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,593 | 123 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,590 | 121 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,493 | 127 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,422 | 133 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,759 | 99 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,804 | 88 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,104 | 69 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,229 | 61 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,398 | 54 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,588 | 48 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,448 | 32 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,768 | 43 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,419 | 32 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,497 | 22 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 | — | |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | — | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | — | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | — | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ayah! It came in at #10,912, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986–1987, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
See more about Ayah
- 92 spots since 2024 (#961 → #869)
- 236 spots since 2020 (#1,105 → #869)
- 651 spots since 2015 (#1,520 → #869)
- Biggest jump: 92 spots in 2025 (#961 → #869)
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 2025 at #869 (309 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2023–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,202 girls born in 2025 were named Ayah (0.02%)
- 32.1% of all girls named Ayah (1,544) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 26 | #8,391 (1988) | #9,702 |
| 1990s | 468 | #1,804 (1999) | #3,012 |
| 2000s | 1,237 | #1,422 (2001) | #1,632 |
| 2010s | 1,534 | #1,079 (2019) | #1,496 |
| 2020s | 1,544 | #869 (2025) | #1,002 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ayah in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 7,315 of them was named Ayah, which outranked 93.7% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,099Myah222
- #1,099Sandra222
- #1,099Winifred222
- #1,105Ayah221
- #1,105Ann221
- #1,105Cherish221
- #1,105Hensley221
- #1,111Erica220
- #1,111Hailee220
- #1,111Lillianna220
Tied with 5 names at #1,105; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 345,215 of them was named Ayah, which outranked 14.5% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,038 names at #12,022; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.