girls:
597 births since 1995
#5119 (10th percentile)
overall:
597 births since 1995
#7142 (8th percentile)
The name Aiya is the #7,142 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 597 recorded births since 1995. This represents the 7.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,119 (10.4% percentile) for all time with 597 births since 1995.
Aiya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1995 (first recorded for girls in 1995).
For girls, Aiya reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #902) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 29 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Aiya is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #902 (4.8% percentile) with 29 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aiya".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Aiya", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 13 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Aya" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Aya..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Aiya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.1% confident that Aiya is pronounced as AI-yuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-uh, at 27.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AY1 Y AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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