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“Path (Sanskrit) or beautiful flower (Amharic) — several unrelated origins” — Multiple (Sanskrit/Hindi, Amharic, Hebrew, Kikongo, Turkic, Japanese) origin
Girl's name · #1161 in the US (2025) · 2000s
Ayana's best rank, #654, came in 2001; it has settled back to #1161 today. Roughly 12,000 girls have been named Ayana since 1970. Together with its spelling variants Aiyana (#1225), Ayanna (#1368), and Aiyanna (#2299), Ayana would rank around #482 with about 620 births last year — the newborns split about 32/29/26/13 across Ayana, Aiyana, Ayanna, and Aiyanna.
Around the world: about 1 in 710 girls in Switzerland (2024) · about 1 in 1,900 girls in France (2025) · about 1 in 2,300 girls in Belgium (2025).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 17 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 94 notable people named Ayana:
Entertainers appear 3.09× more often than among typical names — e.g. Ayana Taketatsu, Japanese voice actress.
Similar names: Aiyana · Giovanna · Hailee · Tianna · Aadhya · Raina
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