Meaning not yet researched.
Aya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 449 in 2025. Its best rank was #630 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #630 in 2024; #644 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#644 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #630.
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Aya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 449 girls in 2025. Peak: #630 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 469 (2024).
In 2025, 449 US girls were named Aya, making it the 644th most common girls’ name of the year, down 14 places from #630 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 469 girls named Aya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #630, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 469. For comparison, it was #893 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aya in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 7 babies. In all, 7,987 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,956 babies named Aya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,846 US girls were named Aya; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 469. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,580 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aya ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #245 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aja (8,404 babies since 1880), Raya (8,008 babies since 1880) and Ayah (4,814 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aiya, Ai and Aoi are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic and Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aiya (680), Ai (403), Aoi (244), Aiyah (240), Ayo (234), Ah (95), Aayah (87), Aaya (58), Aiah (51), Ayaa (33), Ayia (26), Aye (25), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 37 | #245 | #385 |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #339 | #400 |
| Illinois | 27 | #385 | #640 |
| New York | 41 | #422 | #758 |
| Virginia | 18 | #438 | #595 |
| Colorado | 12 | #462 | — |
| Maryland | 11 | #466 | #645 |
| Washington | 14 | #483 | #846 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #502 | #799 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #548 | #405 |
| Oregon | 6 | #563 | #693 |
| California | 57 | #566 | #788 |
| Kansas | 5 | #596 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #654 | #1,259 |
| Texas | 46 | #665 | #963 |
| Ohio | 14 | #678 | #844 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #686 | — |
| North Carolina | 13 | #737 | #906 |
| Missouri | 7 | #740 | #973 |
| Florida | 19 | #829 | #910 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #854 | #777 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,062 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,066 | #964 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,092 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 449 | #644 | — | — |
| 2024 | 469 | #630 | — | — |
| 2023 | 415 | #695 | — | — |
| 2022 | 388 | #746 | — | — |
| 2021 | 351 | #803 | — | — |
| 2020 | 345 | #789 | — | — |
| 2019 | 384 | #738 | — | — |
| 2018 | 368 | #749 | — | — |
| 2017 | 350 | #785 | — | — |
| 2016 | 327 | #861 | — | — |
| 2015 | 309 | #893 | — | — |
| 2014 | 272 | #982 | — | — |
| 2013 | 236 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 2012 | 253 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 2011 | 222 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 2010 | 235 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 2009 | 214 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 2008 | 209 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 2007 | 206 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 2006 | 176 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 2005 | 179 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 2004 | 176 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 2003 | 161 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 2002 | 177 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 2001 | 171 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1999 | 93 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 1997 | 87 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,345 | — | — |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,547 | — | — |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,641 | — | — |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,779 | — | — |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,309 | — | — |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,079 | — | — |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,531 | — | — |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,020 | — | — |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,344 | — | — |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,043 | — | — |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,472 | — | — |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,620 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,486 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,231 | — | — |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,360 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,261 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,227 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,239 | — | — |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,446 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,355 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,802 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,524 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,616 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).