Āy
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Āy is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 390 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish آی (ay, “moon, month, crescent, a beautiful face”), from Proto-Turkic *āń(k) (“moon, month”).
- SESweden1 in 50K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 51K
- BEBelgium1 in 63K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
390 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ay in US United States and A'Y in TN Tunisia.
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)- Ottoman Turkishآیay“moon, month, crescent, a beautiful face”(measured from records)
- Proto-Turkic*āńk(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish آی (ay, “moon, month, crescent, a beautiful face”), from Proto-Turkic *āń(k) (“moon, month”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖 (y¹ /ay/, “moon, month”), Karakhanid ااىْ (āy, “moon, month”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ay, “moon, month”), Azerbaijani ay (“moon”), Bashkir ай (ay, “moon”), Chuvash уйӑх (ujăh, “moon”), Kazakh ай (ai, “moon”), Khakas ай (ay, “moon”), Kyrgyz ай (ay, “moon”), Southern Altai ай (ay, “moon”), Tatar ай (ay, “moon”), Turkmen āý (“moon”), Tuvan ай (ay, “moon”), Uyghur ئاي (ay, “moon”), Uzbek oy (“moon”), Yakut ый (ıy, “moon”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Āy is found
(measured from records)Āy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 390 | 1 in 853K | 390 | Ay | 34 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | A'Y | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | 259 | 1 in 67K | 259 | — | 10 |
| SE Sweden | 204 | 1 in 50K | 204 | — | 8 |
| BE Belgium | 186 | 1 in 63K | 252 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 165 | 1 in 51K | 165 | — | 1 |
390 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Āy is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dra-pro, mother
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In txb, bone
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In trk-pro, moon
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Āy mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish آی (ay, “moon, month, crescent, a beautiful face”), from Proto-Turkic *āń(k) (“moon, month”). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Āy a male or female name?
- Āy is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Āy?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 390 people named Āy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ay. After it come Tunisia, Netherlands, Sweden and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Āy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 390 people named Āy in 2010, about 1 in 853 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Āy?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%81yThe 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, “Āy” — ranked 30816th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.