Ayana

Where Ayana comes from

The dictionaries list Ayana as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #7,070 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1988
    Ayana Onozuka born
    Japanese freestyle skier
  3. 1989
    Ayana Taketatsu born
    Japanese voice actress
  4. 2001
    Peak, #654
    385 babies named Ayana — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,246.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Ayana Taketatsu · Japanese voice actress, born 1989
  • Ayana Onozuka · Japanese freestyle skier, born 1988
  • Ayana Elizabeth Johnson · American marine biologist and policy expert, born 1980
  • Ayana Tsubaki · Japanese transsexual TV personality and model, born 1984
  • Ayana Sakai · Japanese actress, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.