Aiya
Aiya was given to 33 girls in 2025, #4,265 among girls’ names; 680 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aiya?
#4,265 among girls’ names, 2025
Aiya fell from #3,768 in 2015 to #4,265 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 22.4 to 20.5 per million.
53 babies in 2023, the peak
Aiya peaked in 2023, when 53 girls were given it, #3,095 among girls’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,265 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,336 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,095 | 33.0 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,471 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,094 | 21.3 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,358 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,501 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,003 | 21.2 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,578 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,531 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,768 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,464 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,259 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,463 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,448 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,240 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,071 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,805 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,816 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,851 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,818 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,395 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,522 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,849 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,042 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,586 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,726 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,168 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,344 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,550 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,430 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aiya, and how old are they?
An estimated 675 Americans named Aiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 477 people named Aiya (474 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 455 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,329 babies since 1880, Aiya is the third most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 821 babies (4.0%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aiya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aiya and names like it
- Compare Aiya and AyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Aiya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aiya alive today were born 2013-2025.
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