boys:
1.5k births since 1996
#3169 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1996
#6263 (19th percentile)
The name Ayub is the #6,263 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,482 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 19.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,169 (30.9% percentile) for all time with 1,482 births since 1996.
Ayub first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (first recorded for boys in 1996).
For boys, Ayub reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 9.8% percentile (ranked #824) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 48 births per million (ranked 9.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ayub ranks #844 for boys (7.4% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 81.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ayub".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Ayub. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.2% confident that Ayub is pronounced as uh-YUEB, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-yueb, at 25.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AH0 Y UW1 B) 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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