# Ayah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ayah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,814 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 4,809 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3,027, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 112 | 1,805 |
| 2012 | 129 | 1,652 |
| 2013 | 136 | 1,580 |
| 2014 | 120 | 1,737 |
| 2015 | 148 | 1,522 |
| 2016 | 168 | 1,386 |
| 2017 | 176 | 1,321 |
| 2018 | 177 | 1,288 |
| 2019 | 233 | 1,079 |
| 2020 | 221 | 1,106 |
| 2021 | 243 | 1,038 |
| 2022 | 245 | 1,043 |
| 2023 | 255 | 998 |
| 2024 | 271 | 964 |
| 2025 | 309 | 870 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | 12,215 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 65 | 615 |
| 2012 | 61 | 679 |
| 2013 | 70 | 584 |
| 2014 | 101 | 432 |
| 2015 | 99 | 441 |
| 2016 | 115 | 394 |
| 2017 | 136 | 348 |
| 2018 | 154 | 309 |
| 2019 | 184 | 261 |
| 2020 | 178 | 267 |
| 2021 | 265 | 196 |
| 2022 | 257 | 198 |
| 2023 | 286 | 178 |
| 2024 | 314 | 162 |
| 2025 | 338 | 147 |

## People named Ayah

- Ayah Bdeir, Entrepreneur, inventor, and interactive artist (born 1982)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.