Ayub
Ayub was given to 85 boys in 2025, #1,854 among boys’ names; 1,634 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,620 Americans named Ayub and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayub by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ayub mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Ayub is “a male given name from West Circassian, historically used among Circassians in Turkey, now largely obsolete. Circassian names are generally losing popularity due to assimilation and Turkification.”
From West Circassian Аюб (Ajəwb). A traditional Circassian adaptation of the Islamic prophet’s name (Arabic أَيُّوب (ʔayyūb)). Due to linguistic standardization in the Turkish Republic, traditional Circassian forms of prophet names like this were largely destroyed and systematically replaced by their Turkish equivalents (in this case, Eyyüp or Eyyüb).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ayub?
#1,854 among boys’ names, 2025
Ayub rose from #1,957 in 2015 to #1,854 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 38.6 to 49.8 per million.
94 babies in 2018, the peak
Ayub peaked in 2018, when 94 boys were given it, #1,681 among boys’ names. The 85 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #1,854 | 49.8 |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,170 | 38.9 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,064 | 42.1 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,271 | 36.1 |
| 2021 | 49 | #2,628 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 74 | #1,948 | 42.9 |
| 2019 | 74 | #1,974 | 41.2 |
| 2018 | 94 | #1,681 | 51.8 |
| 2017 | 89 | #1,737 | 48.1 |
| 2016 | 83 | #1,815 | 43.7 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 74 | #1,957 | 38.6 |
| 2014 | 77 | #1,884 | 40.1 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,252 | 30.1 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,069 | 34.8 |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,002 | 35.8 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,173 | 31.8 |
| 2009 | 56 | #2,320 | 28.2 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,064 | 32.8 |
| 2007 | 50 | #2,508 | 24.1 |
| 2006 | 56 | #2,250 | 27.2 |
| 2005 | 37 | #2,845 | 18.5 |
| 2004 | 52 | #2,207 | 26.2 |
| 2003 | 33 | #2,927 | 16.7 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,946 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,619 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,772 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,168 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,663 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,466 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,561 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ayub a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ayub has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ayub: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayub, and how old are they?
1,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,634 Americans ever recorded as Ayub. The median Ayub alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,533 people named Ayub (11 women and girls, 1,522 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,232 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 657 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 951 |
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 Ayub born?
The states with the most babies named Ayub are Minnesota, New York and Washington, with 90% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota and Washington are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 30 | #213 | 17.5× |
| New York | 9 | #1,215 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 7 | #810 | 2.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,285 | 2.1× |
Where Ayub is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ayub is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1996 it was given 17.5 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 boys’ 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 Ayub 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,812 babies since 1880, Ayub is the most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 85 of their 198 babies (43%), 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 Ayub
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 Ayub and names like it
- Compare Ayub and AyoubBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAyub peaked in 2018.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayub since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Ayub.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ayub alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.