Ayame
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Ayame is a girls' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Ayame mean?
Japanese
A female given name from Japanese.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Ayame a girl's or a boy's name?
Ayame is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ayame in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,489th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Ayame, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2006, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 1918.
2025 had more girls named Ayame than any year since 2015.
Half of all the girls named Ayame in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ayame in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,744 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,204 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,192 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,088 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,590 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,386 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,043 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,810 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 0 | – |
| 1961 | 0 | – |
| 1960 | 0 | – |
| 1959 | 0 | – |
| 1958 | 0 | – |
| 1957 | 0 | – |
| 1956 | 0 | – |
| 1955 | 0 | – |
| 1954 | 0 | – |
| 1953 | 0 | – |
| 1952 | 0 | – |
| 1951 | 0 | – |
| 1950 | 0 | – |
| 1949 | 0 | – |
| 1948 | 0 | – |
| 1947 | 0 | – |
| 1946 | 0 | – |
| 1945 | 0 | – |
| 1944 | 0 | – |
| 1943 | 0 | – |
| 1942 | 0 | – |
| 1941 | 0 | – |
| 1940 | 0 | – |
| 1939 | 0 | – |
| 1938 | 0 | – |
| 1937 | 0 | – |
| 1936 | 0 | – |
| 1935 | 0 | – |
| 1934 | 0 | – |
| 1933 | 0 | – |
| 1932 | 0 | – |
| 1931 | 0 | – |
| 1930 | 0 | – |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,568 |
| 1928 | 0 | – |
| 1927 | 0 | – |
| 1926 | 0 | – |
| 1925 | 0 | – |
| 1924 | 0 | – |
| 1923 | 0 | – |
| 1922 | 0 | – |
| 1921 | 0 | – |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,396 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,812 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,807 |
Names like Ayame
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Safa, Zainab, Zaniyah, Salem, Hadassah, Zaya, Kaliyah, Aziyah, Zayla, Azul, Amira
Names related to Ayame
More Japanese names
Kobe, Kaizen, Raiden, Ren, Akari, Kenzo, Ronin, Kyomi, Akira, Yuna, Emi, Kiyomi, Kairi, Miya, Kenji, Reo
Sources
Figures from 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, “Ayame: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ayame, updated 20 October 2026.