Ayana

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ayana is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kyrgyzstan, where it is the 91st most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Japanese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ethiopian: beautiful flower.

rarermore common
  • KZKazakhstan1 in 711◐
  • KGKyrgyzstan1 in 785
  • ETEthiopia1 in 2.4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈40K ●

across 9 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
285 ●

87K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 711 ◐

Kazakhstan

Spellings & scripts●

AyanaLatin · English●39K records
АянаCyrillic · Kazakh●76K records
አያናEthiopic · Amharic●693 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Аяна in KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan, RU Russia and 5 more, Aiana in BR Brazil, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 1 more and አያና in ET Ethiopia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Ethiopian: beautiful flower

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ayana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KG Kyrgyzstan#9130,281663 rec.——Аяна18
KZ Kazakhstan#19826,83536K rec.1 in 71127KАяна34
RU Russia#77626,26913K rec.—#425Аяна110
US United States—9,47831K rec.1 in 35K9.5KAyana285
FR France—1,880△2 rec.1 in 36K1.9K—2
ET Ethiopia#4501,447897 rec.—listedአያና18
MN Mongolia#1221,3544 rec.—listedАяна6
IN India—1,309423 rec.—9Ayana49
BR Brazil—1,239△207 rec.1 in 171K1.2KAiana57
CA Canada—1,113436 rec.—5Ayana36
GB United Kingdom—797740 rec.—5Ayana42
AU Australia—560506 rec.—3Ayana45

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English39K42%
  • Japanese12K13%
  • Portuguese12K12%
  • French7.7K8%
  • Spanish3.7K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English39,22842%
Japanese11,99313%
Portuguese11,53412%
French7,7108%
Spanish3,6544%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ayana is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name16K records spelled Ayana7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Ayaña, Āýāņā, Äyâñá, Ãÿana

  • Japanese given name13K records spelled Ayana2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, India, United States, Kyrgyzstan

    Also written Nayana

  • French given name8.2K records spelled Ayana3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Mayotte

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Âyâñâ

  • Hindi given name4.2K records spelled Ayana8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Assamese, Sinhala

    Also written Ion, আয়ন

51 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.

Other recorded senses●

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 wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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

    as a wordTDK 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.

Over time●

0200400600197019801990200020102020405 · 2006

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Ayana in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1970–2025
Yearrecords
19706
197132
197291
197389
1974102
1975147
1976187
1977139
1978116
1979107
1980118
1981110
198292
198391
198469
198560
198668
198774
198879
1989146
1990172
1991208
1992211
1993265
1994276
1995278
1996247
1997251
1998305
1999298
2000336
2001385
2002367
2003369
2004364
2005383
2006405
2007359
2008350
2009360
2010351
2011298
2012304
2013261
2014251
2015256
2016278
2017225
2018245
2019202
2020182
2021221
2022235
2023249
2024221
2025200

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 56 years between 1970–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19601970198019902000Ayana Inoue, b. 1967Ayana Andō, b. 1980Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, b. 1980Ayana Sasagawa, b. 1983Ayana Tsubaki, b. 1984Ayana Sakai, b. 1985Ayana Onozuka, b. 1988Ayana Taketatsu, b. 1989Ayana Okada, b. 1989Ayana Nishinaga, b. 1996

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 82 sources across 48 countries.

Official registers attesting Ayana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20209.5K#2,546
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.9K#398
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#7,164
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—508#14,171
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020356—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020314#67,683
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—228#4,369
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025200—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010168#106,096
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—144#6,657
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—129#12,896

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 384 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ayana?
We estimate roughly 40 thousand people bear Ayana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Ayana have the most bearers?
Ayana is most frequently recorded in Kyrgyzstan, where it is most often spelled аяна.
Where is Ayana most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ayana is densest in Kazakhstan — about 1 in 711 people — even though Kyrgyzstan holds more of our records for it.
How common is Ayana compared with other names?
In Kyrgyzstan, Ayana is the 91st most common given name of 140,295 given names recorded there.
Is Ayana a male or female name?
Ayana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ayana mean?
Recorded meaning: Ethiopian: beautiful flower
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ayana” — the 91st most common given name in Kyrgyzstan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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