Ayoub
Ayoub was given to 63 boys in 2025, #2,232 among boys’ names; 1,073 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Ayoub and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayoub by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ayoub mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ayoub is “a male given name from Arabic [in turn from Hebrew], variant of Ayyub, equivalent to English Job.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ayoub?
#2,232 among boys’ names, 2025
Ayoub rose from #2,969 in 2015 to #2,232 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 20.3 to 36.9 per million.
63 babies in 2024, the peak
Ayoub peaked in 2024, when 63 boys were given it, #2,264 among boys’ names. The 63 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,232 | 36.9 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,264 | 36.6 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,389 | 33.3 |
| 2022 | 50 | #2,649 | 28.6 |
| 2021 | 51 | #2,552 | 29.2 |
| 2020 | 45 | #2,729 | 26.1 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,425 | 30.7 |
| 2018 | 39 | #2,996 | 21.5 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,241 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,063 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #2,969 | 20.3 |
| 2014 | 55 | #2,344 | 28.6 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,895 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 41 | #2,870 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,799 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,918 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,339 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,225 | 17.2 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,517 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,897 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,200 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,739 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,194 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,194 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,906 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,401 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,580 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,028 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,344 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,543 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,879 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,026 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,803 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,378 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ayoub a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ayoub has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ayoub: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayoub, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,073 Americans ever recorded as Ayoub. The median Ayoub alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,162 people named Ayoub (1 woman or girl, 1,161 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 748 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 30 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 383 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 648 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,336 babies since 1880, Ayoub is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 63 of their 193 babies (33%), again the second 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 Ayoub
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 Ayoub and names like it
- Compare Ayoub and AyubBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAyoub peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayoub since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Ayoub: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Ayoub.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ayoub alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.