Ayame

given name · Latin script

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

Ayame is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M
  • CZCzechia1 in 5.4M

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.

United States (measured from records)

267 people, 2020

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ayame 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 Ayame is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2671 in 1.2M266Ayame16
BR Brazil301 in 7.1M30Ayame22
NL Netherlands71 in 2.5M7——
PL Poland31 in 13M3——
PH Philippines≈2 est.≈1 in 71M—Ayame5
CZ Czechia21 in 5.4M2——

267 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Ayame is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Also written Àyàmè

29 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)

  • Ayame Gōrikib. 1992JPJapanese actress and model
  • Ayame Tsutsuib. 2004JPJapanese female idol, fashion model and Nogizaka46 Member (2004-)

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 23 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Ayame
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020266#31,866
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202230—
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—30#47,138
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—29#94,398
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200619—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200718—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201315—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200415—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202514—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201514—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201214—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201114—

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia surname 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

Is Ayame a male or female name?
Ayame 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 Ayame have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 267 people named Ayame, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ayame.
Where is Ayame most common?
Ayame is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Ayame?
In the United States, the national register counted 267 people named Ayame in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

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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, “Ayame”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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