Aye

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ayeh in GH Ghana.

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●

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aye is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name22K records spelled Aye26 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, Türkiye, Nigeria

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Ayé, Åÿe, Ãyë, Ąyë, Ăýĕ

• French given name6.0K records spelled Aye13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Türkiye, Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Ayè, Ãÿę, Ayë, Aýe, Ãýé

• Turkish given name5.5K records spelled Aye10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Iraq, United States

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

  Also written Äÿê, Ayé, Ãyé, Âyè, Ãÿe

• Hindi given name3.3K records spelled Aye6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia, Türkiye, India, Singapore

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Åýė, Åÿe, Äÿë, Ãÿę

• Indonesian given name2.6K records spelled Aye6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Türkiye

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Ãýë, Ayê, Âye, Ayè

• a separate given name1.3K records spelled Aye3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Türkiye, Ethiopia

  Also written Ayé, Åÿe

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Aye is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Akan, r. n, good(?); L = ad^ky^: ye., aye, to do good, to make a present or presents; wAyh me ay^, he has made me a present; pr.646. — ^. = aseda, gratitude: owo aye, he is thankful, grateful. — 3, praise: oyi me aye (obo me din wo me papa a maye mama no nti), he praises me. pr. 1860.3661

  as a word·Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

• In Akan, k. = me yaf. abye, my belly is bloated or puffed up, inftcded, distetidcd; aduao no huru kilitukutu, Ihe food bods with a bubbling noise

  as a word·Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

• In Akan, re-fa, inf. adtdtery committed with another man's wife; cf

  as a word·Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

• In enm, alternative form of ey (“egg”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Indonesian, First-person singular pronoun: I, me, my

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 18 years between 2002–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Khin Maung Ayeb. 1935MMbadminton player
• Aye Aye Myintb. 1950MMbadminton player
• Thida Aye Nyob. 1955MMbadminton player
• Khin Khin Ayeb. 1955MMbadminton player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 88 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aye?

We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Aye (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Aye have the most bearers?

Aye is most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is most often spelled aye.

How common is Aye compared with other names?

In Myanmar (Burma), Aye is the 13th most common given name of 9,034 given names recorded there.

Is Aye a male or female name?

Aye 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.

What does the name Aye mean?

Recorded meaning: ever, always