Girls' name · since 2003
Aayah
87 babies named Aayah in U.S. Social Security records since 2003, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #28,634 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,077 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 87
- born since 2003
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Aayah is the #14077 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 87 recorded since 2003.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aayah has been recorded 87 times among girls since 2003, currently ranked #14077 nationally and more common than 19% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2003 to 2025.
- #28,634 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,077 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 87 born since 2003
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aayah ranks #28,634 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,077 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 87 born since 2003, peaking in the 2020s.
- #28,634 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,077 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 87
- born since 2003
- 2020s
- peak decade
Aayah's 87 recorded births place it above 60.23% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Aayah compares
87 23rd percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Aayah's all-time total is 77% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Aayah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 87 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Aayah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Aayah splits its recorded history at 2019: 56% of all births land in the more recent half, 44% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2007 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2021 peak of 12 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Aayah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2003–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 23 years of records
Aayah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (43 births, 49% of the file).
2020s was Aayah's strongest decade.
43 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 49% of all-time use.
Aayah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 17
2000s
17 births
- 2010s
2010s
27 births
- 2020s
2020s
43 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 43 births (49% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2003–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Aayah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.