Ayyub is a distinctive choice, ranked #379 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Ayyub in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#379
About the Name Ayyub
Ayyub has never been more popular than it is right now, sitting at UK #379. The name has climbed 134 places in the last five years — a significant surge by any measure. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Ayyub is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Ayyub
Unlikely. With around 110 UK babies named Ayyub per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Ayyub in his class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Ayyub is currently rising in popularity in the UK, up 134 places over the last five years to #379 in 2024. If this trend continues, it will become more common in classrooms over the next decade.
Ayyub is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Ayyub does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Ayyubs in the wild.
110
UK babies named Ayyub (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.1
In a school of 600
↑ 134 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Ayyub
Likely around 1 other Ayyub in the class
UK Popularity (1996–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Ayyub
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Muhammad Ayyub ibn Muhammad Yusuf ibn Sulayman Umar al-Arakani was a Saudi Arabian Quran reciter, imam, and Islamic scholar. He was best known for his Quran recitation and service as an imam of Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina between 1990 and 1997, and again in 2015.
al-Malik al-Afdal Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb ibn Shādhi ibn Marwān (Arabic: الملك ألأفضل نجم الدين أيوب بن شاذي بن مروان, Kurdish: نەجمەدین ئەییووبی شادی مەروان, romanized: Necmeddin Eyûbî Şadî Merwan; died August 9, 1173), or simply Najmadin, was a Kurdish mercenary and politician from Dvin, and the father of Saladin. He is the eponymous ancestor of the Ayyubid dynasty.
Abu Sayeed Ayyub was an Indian philosopher, teacher, literary critic and writer in both Bengali and English. Though born into an Urdu-speaking Muslim family in Kolkata, he was so captivated in his early teenage by the poems of Rabindranath Tagore that he taught himself Bengali so as to appreciate Tagore better.