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.
Where Ayah is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Michigan#376 · 1 in 1,597
- Virginia#599 · 1 in 2,660
- Pennsylvania#661 · 1 in 3,252
- South Carolina#786 · 1 in 3,544
- Maryland#787 · 1 in 3,687
Best ever in a state: #283 in Minnesota, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | #376 | 24 | 1 in 1,597 |
| Virginia | #599 | 13 | 1 in 2,660 |
| Pennsylvania | #661 | 15 | 1 in 3,252 |
| South Carolina | #786 | 5 | 1 in 3,544 |
| Maryland | #787 | 6 | 1 in 3,687 |
| New Jersey | #849 | 8 | 1 in 4,553 |
| New York | #884 | 17 | 1 in 4,779 |
| Georgia | #907 | 10 | 1 in 4,529 |
| Illinois | #922 | 10 | 1 in 4,840 |
| Washington | #958 | 6 | 1 in 4,920 |
| Ohio | #971 | 9 | 1 in 5,401 |
| California | #1,039 | 27 | 1 in 6,464 |
| North Carolina | #1,120 | 7 | 1 in 6,439 |
| Florida | #1,196 | 11 | 1 in 7,600 |
| Texas | #1,199 | 21 | 1 in 7,404 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 6,753 of them was named Ayah, which outranked 94.1% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).