Ayana

Locally spelled Аяна in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more and አያና in ET Ethiopia.

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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ayana, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Jamila
• Hana
• Imani
• Leilani
• Nadia

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Ayana is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Philippines, Peru

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Ayaña, Āýāņā, Äyâñá, Ãÿana

• French given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Gabon, Belgium

  Also written Âyâñâ

• Hindi given name8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Kyrgyzstan

  Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu

  Also written Ion, আয়ন

52 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.

Ayana is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In pi, path

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Turkish, "Ey ana!" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.

  as a word·TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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.

• Ayana Tsubakib. 1984JPJapanese transsexual TV personality and model
• Ayana Sakaib. 1985JPJapanese actress
• Ayana Taketatsub. 1989JPJapanese voice actress

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).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

85 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 48 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Ayana mean, and where does it come from?

Ethiopian: beautiful flower Recorded by African Names.

What are other forms of the name Ayana?

In the etymology graph, Ayanna is a form of the same name in other languages.

Is Ayana a male or female name?

Ayana is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and Norway (SSB), among others.

Which countries have the most people named Ayana?

Mondonomo estimates about 84 thousand people named Ayana in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled አያና. After it come Kazakhstan, United States, Russia and India; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Ayana?

In the United States, the national register counted 9,522 people named Ayana in 2020, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.

How common is Ayana compared with other names?

In Ethiopia, Ayana is the 233rd most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.