Aýê

given name · Latin script

Aýê is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Myanmar (Burma) than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English ay, ai, aȝȝ, from Old Norse ei, ey, from Proto-Germanic *aiwa, *aiwō (“ever, always”) (compare Old English āwo, āwa, ā, ō, Middle Dutch ie, German je), from *aiwaz (“age; law”) (co.

  • MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 40(inferred from the name graph)
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 7.9K
  • CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 15K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Aýê itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Myanmar (Burma) (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,400,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
168 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 40 (inferred from the name graph)

Myanmar (Burma), est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
AýêLatin(measured from records)
อาเยThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aye in MM Myanmar (Burma), US United States, MY Malaysia and 3 more.

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

(measured from records)
Derivation of Aýê: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Aýê
  1. Middle Englishay(measured from records)
  2. Old Norseei(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Germanic*aiwa“ever“ever, always”(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic root*aiwaz“age; law”(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂eyu-“long time”(measured from records)

From Middle English ay, ai, aȝȝ, from Old Norse ei, ey, from Proto-Germanic *aiwa, *aiwō (“ever, always”) (compare Old English āwo, āwa, ā, ō, Middle Dutch ie, German je), from *aiwaz (“age; law”) (compare Old English ǣ(w) (“law”), West Frisian ieu (“century”), Dutch eeuw (“century”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“long time”) (compare Irish aois (“age, period”), Breton oad (“age, period”), Latin ævum (“eternity”), Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn)). Doublet of aeviternity and aevum.

Cited for this meaning 1

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Aýê 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.

Where Aýê is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MM Myanmar (Burma)#7≈1,400,000 est.≈1 in 40listedAye101
SY Syria—≈6,900 est.≈1 in 3.6K—Aye3
NG Nigeria—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 89K—Aye15
CI Côte d’Ivoire—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 15K1.4K——
US United States—1,6831 in 198K2.9KAye168
MY Malaysia—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 23K—Aye19
SG Singapore#539≈760 est.≈1 in 7.9K—Aye46

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Aýê under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Aýê mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English ay, ai, aȝȝ, from Old Norse ei, ey, from Proto-Germanic *aiwa, *aiwō (“ever, always”) (compare Old English āwo, āwa, ā, ō, Middle Dutch ie, German je), from *aiwaz (“age; law”) (co… Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Aýê have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 million people named Aýê in Myanmar (Burma), more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aye.
How common is the name Aýê?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,683 people named Aýê in 2020, about 1 in 198 thousand residents.
How common is Aýê compared with other names?
In Myanmar (Burma), Aýê is the 7th most common given name of 9,528 given names recorded there.

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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, “Aýê” — the 7th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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