Ayaka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ejɑkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ayaka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country, where it is the 42nd most common given name.
- JPJapan≈1 in 572(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 472K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 152K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 572 (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ 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(measured from records)
Ayaka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #42 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 572 | — | Ayaka | 136 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 175K | — | Ayaka | 15 |
| US United States | — | 705 | 1 in 472K | 705 | Ayaka | 133 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 154K | 1 | Ayaka | 43 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | listed | Ayaka | 27 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Ayaka | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 422K | listed | Ayaka | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the de-munich-vornamen register; the babynamen-king-2020 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
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 |
| 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 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 14 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ayaka?
- A machine transcription gives /ejɑkə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- 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.
- In which country does Ayaka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 219 thousand people named Ayaka in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ayaka.
- How common is the name Ayaka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 705 people named Ayaka in 2020, about 1 in 472 thousand residents.
- How common is Ayaka compared with other names?
- In Japan, Ayaka is the 42nd most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ayaka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ayakaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 42nd most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.