About the name Ayad
Ayad belongs to the Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Ayad first appears in Social Security records in 2000. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #5816 in 2016, and in 2024 11 babies received the name — 150 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.