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How popular is the name Ayah?

Births per year, rank history and how many Ayahs are alive today.

Ayah (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 147th in 2025 with 338 babies given the name. It has risen strongly over the past decade. Ayah is one spelling of a name also recorded as Aya; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Ayah you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Ayahs born in England and Wales are between 3 and 14, and there are at least 6,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 1.9% chance that at least one of them will be called Ayah.

How many babies are named Ayah each year?

Includes all spellings: Ayah, Aya. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Ayah spelling rank?

Where does the Aya spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.