Ayva
Ayva was given to 72 girls in 2025, #2,461 among girls’ names; 3,823 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,800 Americans named Ayva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ayva mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ayva is “a female given name.”
Fanciful 21st-century spelling of Ava.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ayva?
#2,461 among girls’ names, 2025
Ayva fell from #1,032 in 2015 to #2,461 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.04 per 1,000.
280 babies in 2014, the peak
Ayva peaked in 2014, when 280 girls were given it, #957 among girls’ names. The 72 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,461 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,181 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 91 | #2,110 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 134 | #1,584 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 189 | #1,243 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 228 | #1,082 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 250 | #1,028 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 251 | #1,030 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 228 | #1,104 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 223 | #1,137 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 259 | #1,032 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 280 | #957 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 197 | #1,222 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 203 | #1,206 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 174 | #1,335 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 165 | #1,393 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 164 | #1,426 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 142 | #1,597 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 139 | #1,604 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 141 | #1,548 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 82 | #2,225 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,181 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,039 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,734 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,841 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,859 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ayva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ayva has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ayva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayva, and how old are they?
3,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,823 Americans ever recorded as Ayva. The median Ayva alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 2,564 people named Ayva (2,561 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,059 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,470 |
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 Ayva born?
The states with the most babies named Ayva are California, Florida and Texas, with 84% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,591 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,720 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,975 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,479 | 0.5× |
Where Ayva is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ayva is most over-represented in Florida: since 2000 it was given 1.1 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 Ayva 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 365,650 babies since 1880, Ayva is the third most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 8,465 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Ayva
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 Ayva and names like it
- Compare Ayva and AvaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAyva peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayva since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Ayva.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ayva alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.