Ayelet
Ayelet was given to 46 girls in 2025, #3,345 among girls’ names; 979 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayelet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ayelet?
#3,345 among girls’ names, 2025
Ayelet rose from #3,709 in 2015 to #3,345 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.0 to 28.6 per million.
46 babies in 2025, the peak
Ayelet peaked in 2025, when 46 girls were given it, #3,345 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 26 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,345 | 28.6 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,036 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,478 | 28.0 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,019 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,416 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,367 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,667 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,469 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,309 | 19.1 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,358 | 18.6 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,709 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,016 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,161 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,726 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,384 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,441 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,283 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,026 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,733 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,252 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,849 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,118 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,835 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,474 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,383 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,084 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,242 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,594 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,525 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,557 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,947 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,353 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,076 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,099 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,622 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,540 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,831 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,461 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,295 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,813 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,006 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,346 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,370 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,306 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,452 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,472 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,114 | 4.4 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,618 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,234 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,068 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,306 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,389 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,427 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ayelet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ayelet has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ayelet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayelet, and how old are they?
An estimated 966 Americans named Ayelet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 874 people named Ayelet (874 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 786 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above 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.
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 Ayelet born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 17 | #913 | 5.4× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,195 | 0.6× |
Where Ayelet is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ayelet is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 5.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Ayelet with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,055 babies since 1880, Ayelet is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 53 babies (87%), again the 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 Ayelet
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 Ayelet and names like it
- Compare Ayelet and AliletBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAyelet peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayelet since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ayelet.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ayelet alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.