Ayaka
given name · Japanese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ayaka is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and English, written in the Latin script.
- JPJapan1 in 939◐
- USUnited States1 in 472K
- SGSingapore1 in 186K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈774 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 130 ●
- 1 in 472K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
73K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #41 | 76,947 | 70K rec. | — | — | Ayaka | 130 |
| US United States | — | 705 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 472K | 705 | Ayaka | 115 |
| AU Australia | — | 570 | 505 rec. | — | 1 | Ayaka | 40 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 271 | 502 rec. | — | — | Ayaka | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 98 | 16 rec. | — | 24 | Ayaka | 19 |
| DE Germany | — | 97 | 101 rec. | — | listed | Ayaka | 28 |
| TH Thailand | — | 86 | 58 rec. | — | — | Ayaka | 22 |
| PH Philippines | — | 85 | 33 rec. | — | — | Ayaka | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 66 | 56 rec. | — | — | Ayaka | 22 |
| IN India | — | 62 | 57 rec. | — | 5 | Ayaka | 6 |
| SG Singapore | — | 58 | 51 rec. | — | — | Ayaka | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | 41 | 37 rec. | — | 5 | Ayaka | 12 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Japanese78K96%
- English1.4K2%
- Swahili2271%
- French1981%
- Spanish1741%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 77,839 | 96% |
| English | 1,435 | 2% |
| Swahili | 227 | 1% |
| French | 198 | 1% |
| Spanish | 174 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1985 | 9 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 10 |
| 1989 | 12 |
| 1990 | 13 |
| 1991 | 16 |
| 1992 | 14 |
| 1993 | 9 |
| 1994 | 10 |
| 1995 | 13 |
| 1996 | 13 |
| 1997 | 14 |
| 1998 | 15 |
| 1999 | 14 |
| 2000 | 14 |
| 2001 | 18 |
| 2002 | 19 |
| 2003 | 17 |
| 2004 | 17 |
| 2005 | 15 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 14 |
| 2008 | 14 |
| 2009 | 17 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 20 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 35 years between 1985–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ayaka Kimurab. 1981JPJapanese actor and singer
- Ayaka Hiraharab. 1984JPJapanese singer-songwriter, saxophone player, actress
- Ayaka Nishiwakib. 1989JPJapanese singer
- Ayaka Umedab. 1989JPJapanese actress
- Ayaka Kikuchib. 1993JPJapanese singer
- Ayaka Ōhashib. 1994JPJapanese voice actress and singer
- Ayaka Miyoshib. 1996JPJapanese actress, model
- Ayaka Wilsonb. 1997JPJapanese-Canadian actress-model
- Ayaka Kōrab. 2001JPJapanese long jumper
- Ayaka KuramotoJPJapanese voice actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 25 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 705 | #16,110 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #10,834 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 29 | #50,440 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24 | #173,031 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 21 | #4,101 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 21 | #4,102 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21 | #53,545 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 17 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 65 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ayaka?
- We estimate roughly 774 people bear Ayaka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ayaka have the most bearers?
- Ayaka is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled ayaka.
- How common is Ayaka compared with other names?
- In Japan, Ayaka is the 41st most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
- Is Ayaka a male or female name?
- Ayaka is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ayaka” — the 41st most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.