Aayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AA-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #929 for girls
Aayah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “sign; verse of the Qur'an”. In 2025 it ranked 929th for girls in the UK (40 babies).
What does Aayah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Ayah
“sign; verse of the Qur'an”
Ayah is the Arabic word for a verse of the Qur'an, literally a sign or wonder.
Is Aayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 40 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aayah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 929th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 40 about 1 in 7,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady much the same
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 40 girls in the UK were named Aayah, making it the 929th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,064th.
2025 had the most girls named Aayah of any year since it first appeared, in 2004.
Half of all the girls named Aayah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 872nd in England and Wales.
Aayah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #929 |
| 2024 | 29 | #1,208 |
| 2023 | 24 | #1,399 |
| 2022 | 25 | #1,363 |
| 2021 | 22 | #1,491 |
| 2020 | 34 | #1,064 |
| 2019 | 27 | #1,285 |
| 2018 | 32 | #1,148 |
| 2017 | 22 | #1,541 |
| 2016 | 15 | #2,015 |
| 2015 | 15 | #1,988 |
| 2014 | 11 | #2,462 |
| 2013 | 12 | #2,309 |
| 2012 | 9 | #2,887 |
| 2011 | 7 | #3,360 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
Names like Aayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah, Safa, Zainab, Aaliyah, Nusaybah, Abeeha, Hafsa, Aafiyah, Hiba, Ruqayyah, Rahma, Amira
Names related to Aayah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aayah, updated 20 October 2026.