Ayah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ayah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ayah: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #162, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#162highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1646
1997	#1666
1998	#1823
1999	#1970
2000	#1389
2001	#1107
2002	#962
2003	#1083
2004	#736
2005	#802
2006	#1052
2007	#822
2008	#1065
2009	#647
2010	#576
2011	#615
2012	#679
2013	#584
2014	#432
2015	#441
2016	#394
2017	#348
2018	#309
2019	#261
2020	#267
2021	#196
2022	#198
2023	#178
2024	#162

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #162 among girls in England and Wales, #556 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1646 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #162 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Ayah appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,689 births with the name.

Ayah across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ayah's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1646 (1996)	#162 (2024)	#162 (2024)	29 of 29	2,689 (1996–2024)	314 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#512 (2002)	#512 (2002)	#885 (2025)	9 of 24	35 (2002–2025)	6 (2024)

Ayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ayah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	37	4 of 10	9
2000s	298	10 of 10	30
2010s	1,054	10 of 10	105
2020sbusiest	1,300	5 of 10	260

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 260 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 87, from 178 to 265.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ayah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #162 in England and Wales in 2024.

Ayah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#162	314	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#178	286	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#198	257	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#196	265	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#267	178	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#261	184	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#309	154	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#348	136	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#394	115	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#441	99	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#432	101	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#584	70	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#679	61	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#615	65	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#576	69	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#647	57	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1065	28	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#822	39	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1052	26	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#802	35	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#736	38	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1083	21	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#962	23	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1389	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1823	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1666	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1646	10	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#556	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #162, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 314 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 6 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Ayaaz · #1363, 17y
Ayad · #1879, 14y
Ayala · #2090, 23y
Ayan · #193, 48y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Carole · #162, 35y
Juni · #162, 34y
Cohan · #163, 25y
Cathair · #164, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aleena · #162, 30y
Freyja · #162, 30y
Zoya · #162, 29y
Cohan · #163, 25y

Ayah was ranked #162 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ayah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ayah without appearing here.

Ayah moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1389 and #1313 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1107 and #3262.
Jesse Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1083 and #965 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #736 and #1952.
Janice Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1646 and #1364 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1666 and #2738.
Belinda Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1083 and #909 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #736 and #1715.

Moved ahead of Ayah

Maja Compare
In 2008 they stood at #576 and #677 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #742 and #54.
Ivy Compare
In 2012 they stood at #742 and #893 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #747 and #304.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #615 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #679 and #284.
Ada Compare
In 2007 they stood at #822 and #919 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1065 and #699.

Moved the opposite way to Ayah

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayah went from #1646 to #162 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayah went from #1646 to #162 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayah went from #1646 to #162 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayah went from #1646 to #162 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Ayah

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayah went from #1646 to #162 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayah went from #1646 to #162 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayah went from #1646 to #162 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayah went from #1646 to #162 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #162 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ayah

Ayah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ayah across 2 official records

Ayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Popularity data

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Ayah across 2 official records

Ayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ayah appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ayah

Ayah and the names beside it

Ayah moved ahead of

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