Ayako
The girl's name Ayako has been in the national records since 1908, with 543 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2019. About 140 Ayakos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ayako
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 543
- Estimated living today
- 140
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 1,411th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1908
How old the living Ayakos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 543 babies given the name since 1908, about 140 are alive — 25 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Japanese
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ayakos
- Ayako Kitamoto (born 1983)Japanese association football player
- Ayako Kawasumi (born 1976)Japanese voice actress and singer
- Ayako Moriya (born 1990)Japanese princess; youngest daughter of Norihito, Prince Takamado, and Hisako, Princess Takamado
- Ayako Wakao (born 1933)Japanese actress
- Ayako Hamada (born 1981)Mexican professional wrestler
- Ayako Fujitani (born 1979)Japanese actress and writer
People named Ayako with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ayako is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ayako is most concentrated in Hawaii (166.1×), California (4.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular girls’ names the year Ayako peaked:
Related names
Ayako against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.