Ayaa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AH-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Ayaa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “sign, miracle, verse”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Ayaa mean?
Arabic: spelling of Aya
“sign, miracle, verse”
In Arabic an aya is a verse of the Quran; Aya is also a Japanese name meaning 'colour, design'.
Meaning borrowed from Aya. More on Wiktionary.
Is Ayaa a girl's or a boy's name?
Ayaa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ayaa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,935among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Ayaa, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2004, with 4 girls.
In 2025, 572 girls in the UK were given Ayaa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #108, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Ayaa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
Names like Ayaa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hafsa Hiba Abeeha Zainab Aaliyah Rahma Huda Safaa Halima Safiya Amira
Other spellings of Ayaa
Names related to Ayaa
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, “Ayaa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ayaa, updated 20 October 2026.