Ayu

given name · Indonesian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ayu is a given name, most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and Japanese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: dainty (Delicately small and pretty).

rarermore common
  • IDIndonesia1 in 476◐
  • MYMalaysia1 in 6.1K
  • SGSingapore1 in 7.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈279 ●

across 6 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
223 ●

55K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 243K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

AyuLatin · Indonesian●201K records
อะยThai · Thai●11 records

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●

dainty (Delicately small and pretty)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ayu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia#41190,78240K rec.—#4Ayu223
MY Malaysia#45210,7407.6K rec.—4Ayu52
SG Singapore#3831,4971.7K rec.——Ayu29
TR Türkiye—814968 rec.——Ayu9
PH Philippines—678262 rec.——Ayu13
TW Taiwan—442729 rec.——Ayu25
IN India—360312 rec.—1Ayu34
HK Hong Kong#474360739 rec.——Ayu13
RU Russia—29019 rec.——Ayu16
TM Turkmenistan—218429 rec.——Ayu1
SA Saudi Arabia—19967 rec.——Ayu15
VN Vietnam—172304 rec.——Ayu12

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Indonesian201K91%
  • Japanese5.5K3%
  • Malay3.7K2%
  • English3.2K1%
  • Hindi1.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Indonesian200,89291%
Japanese5,5453%
Malay3,7392%
English3,1821%
Hindi1,0601%

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◐

Ayu is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7.3K records spelled Ayu11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Australia, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Äyu, Ayū, Åyü, Ayů, Ayû

  • Japanese given name6.4K records spelled Ayu2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, Malaysia, United States, Singapore

    Also written A-Yu

  • Spanish given name2.4K records spelled Ayu12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Argentina, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ayü, Ayú, Äýû, Ăyu, Äÿu

  • a separate given name1.3K records spelled Ayu2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Ethiopia, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Ayú

  • French given name647 records spelled Ayu3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Malaysia, Singapore, United States

    Also written Ãÿu

  • Russian given name444 records spelled Ayu13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Türkiye, Kazakhstan, Malaysia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Аю, А-Ю, Ieu, Iêu, Åÿu

  • Polish given name376 records spelled Ayu2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Ãÿu

  • Bangla given name236 records spelled Ayu6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Bangladesh, India, Türkiye

    Also written আয়, আইয়ু, আয, আয়ু

56 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●

Ayu 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 Indonesian, beautiful, pretty

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In roa-leo, garlic

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, A sweetfish, an amphidromous fish of East Asia, the only member of its genus and family, Plecoglossus altivelis, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh. It is a game fish and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Hausa, manatee, (in particular) the African manatee

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of あゆ

    as a wordkaikki.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.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Watanabe Ayu, b. 1953Ayu Utami, b. 1968Ayu Yamanouchi, b. 1976Ayu Wada, b. 1977Ayu Ogawa, b. 1977Ayu Manaka, b. 1987Ayu Sakurai, b. 1991Ayu Nakada, b. 1993Ayu Maulida, b. 1997Ayu Makihara, b. 1998

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 33 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Ayu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020128#44,846
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—56#7,872
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—43#46,292
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—42#15,331
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—38—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202637#1,261
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—34#14,350
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202025#44,846
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#24,265
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—18#19,959
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—17#4,703
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202011—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 115 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ayu?
We estimate roughly 279 people bear Ayu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Ayu have the most bearers?
Ayu is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled ayu.
How common is Ayu compared with other names?
In Indonesia, Ayu is the 41st most common given name of 232,466 given names recorded there.
Is Ayu a male or female name?
Ayu 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 Ayu mean?
Recorded meaning: dainty (Delicately small and pretty)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Ayu” — the 41st most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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