Ayanna

given name · English · Latin script

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

Ayanna is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: This is a beautiful flower.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 26K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 193K
  • GYGuyana1 in 8.1K

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

≈14K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
315 ●

53K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 8.1K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

This is a beautiful flower

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Where in the world●

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

Where Ayanna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—12,84849K rec.1 in 26K13KAyanna315
GB United Kingdom—1,073977 rec.—listedAyanna52
CA Canada—881454 rec.—2Ayanna47
FR France—545—1 in 124K545——
BR Brazil—5050 rec.1 in 419K505Ayanna2
AU Australia—238226 rec.—1Ayanna22
PH Philippines—202125 rec.——Ayanna24
JM Jamaica#757139144 rec.——Ayanna8
RU Russia—108105 rec.——Ayanna8
GY Guyana#45893231 rec.1 in 8.1K93Ayanna4
DE Germany—7275 rec.—listedAyanna25
EG Egypt—6060 rec.——Ayanna3

Roughly 13K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 26K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • English60K75%
  • Portuguese4.5K6%
  • 3.4K4%
  • Spanish3.4K4%
  • French2.8K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English59,86575%
Portuguese4,4536%
3,4344%
Spanish3,3724%
French2,7863%

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

Other recorded senses●

Ayanna is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Beautiful blossom.

    as a nameThe African book of names

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●

02505007501K19801990200020102020847 · 2003

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Ayanna in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1971–2025
Yearrecords
1971194
1972343
1973177
1974120
1975155
1976124
1977176
1978129
1979129
1980109
1981124
1982112
198389
198462
198585
198663
198759
198863
1989100
1990112
1991168
1992209
1993224
1994312
1995316
1996337
1997515
1998574
1999656
2000656
2001726
2002596
2003847
2004634
2005626
2006573
2007589
2008530
2009469
2010483
2011445
2012369
2013325
2014302
2015245
2016244
2017231
2018229
2019185
2020204
2021209
2022201
2023208
2024203
2025161

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 55 years between 1971–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

197019801990Ayanna Howard, b. 1972Ayanna Pressley, b. 1974Ayanna Hutchinson, b. 1978Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, b. 1980Ayanna Alexander, b. 1982Mariama Eastmond, b. 1983Ayanna Witter-Johnson, b. 1985Ayanna Dyette, b. 1986

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 51 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Ayanna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202013K#2,093
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024545#1,025
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022505—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—500#13,274
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020192—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025161—
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—134#18,363
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—133#31,684
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202593#501
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—49#8,528
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—30#15,669
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—30#49,363

Reference works 2

  • 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 · 211 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ayanna?
We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Ayanna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Ayanna have the most bearers?
We estimate about 13 thousand people bear Ayanna in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ayanna.
Where is Ayanna most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ayanna is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 8.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Ayanna compared with other names?
In Guyana, Ayanna is the 458th most common given name of 22,162 given names recorded there.
Is Ayanna a male or female name?
Ayanna 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 Ayanna mean?
Recorded meaning: This is a 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, “Ayanna” — the 458th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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