Aya: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced AH-yuh · 2 syllables

Borrowed from Japanese (Aya).

How popular is Aya?

Aya was the #644 name in the US in 2025, given to 449 babies. It’s rising: up 60% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Babies named Aya in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2020).

Half of US adults named Aya are older than 24; most are between 18 and 42. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Aya have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Aya is pronounced AH-yuh.

Aya was the #644 name in the US in 2025, given to 449 babies. It’s rising: up 60% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Half of US adults named Aya are older than 24. Most are between 18 and 42.