Ayo
Ayo was last recorded in 2024, when 9 babies were given it; 234 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ayo?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,381, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 2021, the peak
Ayo peaked in 2021, when 17 babies were given it (12 boys, #6,743 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | under 5 | 9 | #8,381 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 7 | #9,864 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #12,553 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,593 | 12 | #6,743 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,697 | 9 | #8,147 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 9 | #8,229 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #12,471 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #9,775 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 6 | #10,805 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #12,285 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | under 5 | 6 | #10,922 | |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,590 | 7 | #9,961 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 7 | #9,869 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 9 | #7,289 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,403 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #8,214 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,762 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #7,877 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 7 | #6,570 | |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,119 | 5 | #6,322 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,933 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,575 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,342 | 7 | #4,883 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,998 | 5 | #5,866 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #5,921 | |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,356 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,132 | 5 | #5,163 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,616 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ayo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 234 Americans recorded as Ayo, 34% are girls and 66% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ayo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayo, and how old are they?
An estimated 227 Americans named Ayo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 8 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 700 people named Ayo (273 women and girls, 427 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 179 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.9 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.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 329 babies since 1880, Ayo is the most given (71% of them).
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.
More about Ayo and names like it
- Compare Ayo and AhBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAyo peaked in 2021.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Ayo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ayo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.