Ayda
Ayda was given to 74 girls in 2025, #2,414 among girls’ names; 1,535 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Ayda 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 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ayda mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Ayda is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ayda?
#2,414 among girls’ names, 2025
Ayda rose from #3,094 in 2015 to #2,414 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 30.3 to 46.0 per million.
102 babies in 2022, the peak
Ayda peaked in 2022, when 102 girls were given it, #1,943 among girls’ names. The 74 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,414 | 46.0 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,535 | 43.2 |
| 2023 | 93 | #2,077 | 58.0 |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,943 | 62.2 |
| 2021 | 99 | #1,972 | 60.3 |
| 2020 | 89 | #2,068 | 55.1 |
| 2019 | 90 | #2,091 | 53.6 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,340 | 45.9 |
| 2017 | 82 | #2,270 | 47.5 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,673 | 36.7 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,094 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,434 | 25.8 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,047 | 30.8 |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,709 | 36.9 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,913 | 33.5 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,473 | 25.9 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,197 | 28.3 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,652 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,756 | 34.3 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,803 | 21.0 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,033 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,818 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,926 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,359 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,838 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,942 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,264 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,524 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,665 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,174 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,328 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,330 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,216 | 3.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,527 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,186 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,554 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,175 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ayda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ayda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ayda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayda, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,535 Americans ever recorded as Ayda. The median Ayda alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,844 people named Ayda (1,832 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,022 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 22 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 28 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 482 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 990 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Ayda born?
The states with the most babies named Ayda are California, Texas and Virginia, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,533 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,679 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 7 | #956 | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ayda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Ayda?
Ayda is a less common spelling of Aida: SSA has recorded 1,535 Ayda and 13,782 Aida since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 135,391 babies since 1880, Ayda is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 74 of their 1,938 babies (3.8%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Ayda
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 Ayda and names like it
- Compare Ayda and AidaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAyda peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayda since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Ayda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Ayda.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ayda alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.