Ayalew

org · Latin script

Meaning: The Mighty One

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

Ayalew is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia.

rarermore common
  • ETEthiopia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
147 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AyalewLatin(measured from records)
አያሌውEthiopic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled አያሌው in ET Ethiopia.

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)

The Mighty One

Sources 1

  • A Handbook of African Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ayalew counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Ayalew is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ET Ethiopia——አያሌው43
US United States—676—147
SE Sweden—35—15
FI Finland—25—1
NO Norway—24—7

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 — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ayalew is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ayāléw

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Åýålêw

38 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Ayalew Birru, b. 1892Wude Ayalew, b. 1987Hiwot Ayalew, b. 1990

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(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Ayalew
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020676#35,764
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010384#53,802
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000169#99,214
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—35#16,558
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—24#38,589
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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 Ayalew mean, and where does it come from?
The Mighty One Recorded by A Handbook of African Names.
In which country does Ayalew have the most bearers?
Ayalew is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled አያሌው.

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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, “Ayalew”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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