Girls' name · since 2018
Ayara
Ayara has 63 recorded births since 2018 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #32,243 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,781 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 63
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Ayara currently ranks #11781 among girls' names in America, with 63 babies recorded since 2018.
Ayara has 63 recorded births among girls since 2018, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #11781 as of the latest data, more common than 32% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2018 to 2025.
- #32,243 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #11,781 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 63 born since 2018
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Ayara ranks #32,243 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,781 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 63 born since 2018, peaking in the 2020s.
- #32,243 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,781 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 63
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Ayara's 63 recorded births place it above 55.19% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Ayara compares
63 18th 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
Ayara's all-time total is 83% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Ayara | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 63 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Ayara's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Ayara's full recorded timeline at 2022, 62% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 38% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2019, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2023 peak of 12 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Ayara popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
Ayara by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (52 births, 83% of the file).
2020s was Ayara's strongest decade.
52 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 83% of all-time use.
Ayara births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 11
2010s
11 births
- 2020s
2020s
52 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 52 births (83% 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, 2018–2025 (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 Ayara 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.