Ayub

maleStatistical record

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

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

Ayub: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #342 in 2022, and it stood at #423 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#342highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1235
1997	#1578
1998	#1188
1999	#1281
2000	#751
2001	#910
2002	#781
2003	#695
2004	#590
2005	#445
2006	#663
2007	#638
2008	#604
2009	#535
2010	#635
2011	#631
2012	#526
2013	#570
2014	#583
2015	#633
2016	#554
2017	#498
2018	#572
2019	#526
2020	#619
2021	#514
2022	#500
2023	#487
2024	#500

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 · Boys

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

In 2024: #421 among boys in Norway, #500 among boys in England and Wales.

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

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1235 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2022–2025
Highest recorded position: #342 among boys in Norway, in 2022 (recorded 2022–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #423 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Ayub appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,448 births with the name.

Ayub 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.

Ayub'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 · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#445 (2005)	#500 (2024)	29 of 29	1,448 (1996–2024)	82 (2023)
Norway · Boys	#342 (2022)	#342 (2022)	#423 (2025)	4 of 4	30 (2022–2025)	9 (2022)

Ayub by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Ayub in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	38	4 of 10	10
2000s	401	10 of 10	40
2010s	638	10 of 10	64
2020sbusiest	371	5 of 10	74

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 74 births a year.

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

Ayub 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: #342 in Norway in 2022.

Ayub'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	male	#500	78	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#487	82	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#500	78	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#514	76	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#619	57	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#526	72	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#572	65	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#498	80	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#554	69	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#633	55	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#583	61	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#570	62	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#526	70	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#631	53	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#635	51	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#535	63	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#604	52	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#638	45	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#663	41	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#445	63	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#590	41	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#695	31	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#781	24	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#910	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#751	23	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1281	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1188	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#423	6	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#421	6	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#354	9	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#342	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

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 #342, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 82 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2022, and 26 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.

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Aysha · #316, 29y
Ayush · #726, 27y
Ayuub · #1252, 25y

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.

Ayrton · #342, 30y
Gwendolyn · #343, 34y
Nicol · #341, 26y
Janita · #340, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Ayrton · #342, 30y
Chandler · #342, 24y
Corbyn · #342, 24y
Eduard · #342, 25y

Ayub was ranked #342 in Norway · Boys in 2022. 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.

Ayub 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 Ayub without appearing here.

Ayub moved ahead of

Graeme Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1281 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #751 and #2501.
Graham Compare
In 2003 they stood at #695 and #695 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #590 and #1347.
Conan Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1281 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #751 and #1425.
Kelly Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1578 and #1454 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #910 and #1467.

Moved ahead of Ayub

Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1578 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1188 and #924.
Cooper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #663 and #677 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #638 and #509.
Hudson Compare
In 2006 they stood at #663 and #885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #638 and #538.
Mathias Compare
In 2023 they stood at #487 and #500 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #500 and #406.

Moved the opposite way to Ayub

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayub went from #1235 to #500 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayub went from #1235 to #500 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayub went from #1235 to #500 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayub went from #1235 to #500 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Ayub

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayub went from #1235 to #500 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayub went from #1235 to #500 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayub went from #1235 to #500 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ayub went from #1235 to #500 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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: #342 in Norway in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ayub

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ayub across 2 official records

Ayub by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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