Aye
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ever, always
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aye 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.
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 262(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 5K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 20K
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.
- Myanmar (Burma) (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 262 (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Myanmar (Burma), 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(measured from records)
ever, always
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aye 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #7 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 262 | listed | Aye | 101 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Aye | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Aye | 15 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Aye | 13 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 36K | #813,555 | Aye | 89 |
| US United States | — | 1,683 | 1 in 198K | 2.9K | Aye | 168 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Aye | 19 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1.4K | — | — |
| SG Singapore | #539 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Aye | 46 |
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: the mm-github-names register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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 wordDictionary 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 wordDictionary 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 wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In enm, alternative form of ey (“egg”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, First-person singular pronoun: I, me, my
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(measured from records)
- 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).
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 37 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #8,592 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 403 | #8,592 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 6 | — |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | Myanmar romanized given names (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | Myanmar romanized given names (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Aye mean, and where does it come from?
- ever, always Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Aye?
- A machine transcription gives /aɪ/ (IPA) for Burmese.
- 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.
- In which country does Aye have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 216 thousand people named Aye in Myanmar (Burma), more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aye.
- How common is the name Aye?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,683 people named Aye in 2020, about 1 in 198 thousand residents.
- How common is Aye compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Aye is the 7th most common given name of 9,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Aye?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ayeThe 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, “Aye” — the 7th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.