Ayako — girls' name

What the Data Says About Ayako

The Social Security Administration has registered 543 babies named Ayako between 1908 and 2019, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ayako currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 30 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ayako performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 207 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Ayako shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 156 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Ayako in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ayako in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 543 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.