Ayanna

Where Ayanna comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ayanna.

  • Vowel-ended
Ayanna through the years
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #753 among girls with 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, the most in any year.
  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.