Entry № 1130 · Japanese origin

Ayame Ayame — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"An iris flower"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "an iris flower".

Ayame is a name of Japanese origin, meaning an iris flower.

An iris flower — a Japanese name.

The name in its native script.

Ayame
Transliteration
Ayame
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Ayame stands.

Ayame does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ayames before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Ayame.

The number behind Ayame.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ayame reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.