girls:
4.2k births since 1986
#2642 (54th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2020
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
4.2k births since 1986
#4213 (46th percentile)
The name Ayah is the #4,213 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,231 recorded births since 1986. This represents the 45.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,642 (53.8% percentile) for all time with 4,226 births since 1986. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2020.
Ayah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1986 (1986 for girls and 2020 for boys).
The name Ayah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ayah reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 25.9% percentile (ranked #702) with 145 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 145 births per million (ranked 25.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ayah is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #702 (25.9% percentile) with 145 births per million.
For boys, Ayah reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #901) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ayah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Ayah", 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 5 different pronunciations for the name Ayah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.3% confident that Ayah is pronounced as AH-yuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-uh, at 32.6% 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 AA1 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.
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