Ayaat
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-YAHT
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,642 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,115 for girls
Ayaat is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “signs, miracles, verses”. In 2025 it ranked 1,642nd for girls in the UK (19 babies) and 6,115th for girls in the US (19 babies).
What does Ayaat mean?
Arabic: plural of aya
“signs, miracles, verses”
Is Ayaat a girl's or a boy's name?
Ayaat is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 girls in the UK and 19 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ayaat in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,642among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19about 1 in 15,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 45% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 19 girls in the UK were named Ayaat, making it the 1,642nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 845th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 60 girls.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Ayaat than any year since 2013.
Half of all the girls named Ayaat in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 352 girls in the UK were given Ayaat or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #180, up from #1,642 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,584th in England and Wales.
Ayaat in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #1,642 |
| 2024 | 30 | #1,176 |
| 2023 | 36 | #1,030 |
| 2022 | 49 | #792 |
| 2021 | 40 | #945 |
| 2020 | 46 | #845 |
| 2019 | 60 | #703 |
| 2018 | 49 | #832 |
| 2017 | 35 | #1,079 |
| 2016 | 26 | #1,361 |
| 2015 | 25 | #1,389 |
| 2014 | 29 | #1,235 |
| 2013 | 16 | #1,874 |
| 2012 | 20 | #1,615 |
| 2011 | 10 | #2,582 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #3,396 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
How popular is Ayaat in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,115among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19about 1 in 85,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 11% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 19 girls in the US were named Ayaat, making it the 6,115th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,165th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
Half of all the girls named Ayaat in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 219 girls in the US were given Ayaat or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,001, up from #6,115 for this spelling alone.
- Ayat 200
- Ayaat 19
Ayaat in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,115 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,459 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,394 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,165 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,336 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,398 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,719 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
Names like Ayaat
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah Safa Rehmat Zainab Abeeha Hafsa Aaliyah Ayra Nusaybah Aayat Rahma Amira
Other spellings of Ayaat
Ayat Ayyat
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), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ayaat: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ayaat, updated 20 October 2026.