Ayanna

Where Ayanna comes from

The dictionaries list Ayanna 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. 1971
    First appearance
    #753 among girls, 194 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Ayanna Howard born
    American roboticist
  3. 1974
    Ayanna Pressley born
    U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
  4. 2003
    Peak, #362
    847 babies named Ayanna — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #754.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Ayanna Pressley · U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, born 1974
  • Ayanna Howard · American roboticist, born 1972
  • Ayanna Alexander · Olympic triple jumper, born 1982
  • Ayanna Hutchinson · Trinidadian athletics competitor, born 1978
  • Ayanna McCloud · artist from Houston, Texas, US, born 1978

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.