Ayanna
#1,367 for girls in 2025, 161 births
- Peak · girls
- 2003 · 847 births
- Debut · girls
- 194 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 16,326since 1971
Ayanna over time
Rank among girls' names. Ayanna has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,367 | 161 |
| 2024 | #1,180 | 203 |
| 2023 | #1,162 | 208 |
| 2022 | #1,199 | 201 |
| 2021 | #1,169 | 209 |
| 2020 | #1,156 | 204 |
| 2019 | #1,255 | 185 |
| 2018 | #1,093 | 229 |
| 2017 | #1,096 | 231 |
| 2016 | #1,068 | 244 |
| 2015 | #1,075 | 245 |
| 2014 | #898 | 302 |
| 2013 | #824 | 325 |
| 2012 | #754 | 369 |
| 2011 | #642 | 445 |
| 2010 | #611 | 483 |
| 2009 | #636 | 469 |
| 2008 | #584 | 530 |
| 2007 | #531 | 589 |
| 2006 | #529 | 573 |
| 2005 | #488 | 626 |
| 2004 | #467 | 634 |
| 2003 | #362 | 847 |
| 2002 | #473 | 596 |
| 2001 | #401 | 726 |
| 2000 | #432 | 656 |
| 1999 | #420 | 656 |
| 1998 | #448 | 574 |
| 1997 | #485 | 515 |
| 1996 | #660 | 337 |
| 1995 | #673 | 316 |
| 1994 | #678 | 312 |
| 1993 | #863 | 224 |
| 1992 | #929 | 209 |
| 1991 | #1,077 | 168 |
| 1990 | #1,410 | 112 |
| 1989 | #1,461 | 100 |
| 1988 | #1,934 | 63 |
| 1987 | #1,918 | 59 |
| 1986 | #1,802 | 63 |
| 1985 | #1,458 | 85 |
| 1984 | #1,751 | 62 |
| 1983 | #1,346 | 89 |
| 1982 | #1,204 | 112 |
| 1981 | #1,114 | 124 |
| 1980 | #1,206 | 109 |
| 1979 | #1,069 | 129 |
| 1978 | #1,049 | 129 |
| 1977 | #844 | 176 |
| 1976 | #1,009 | 124 |
| 1975 | #863 | 155 |
| 1974 | #1,003 | 120 |
| 1973 | #761 | 177 |
| 1972 | #506 | 343 |
| 1971 | #753 | 194 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ayanna! It came in at #753, and was given to 194 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1988, when fewer than 86 girls a year got the name.
Where Ayanna is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#455 · 1 in 1,808
- Mississippi#547 · 1 in 2,184
- Virginia#570 · 1 in 2,772
- Florida#614 · 1 in 3,306
- Michigan#663 · 1 in 3,439
Best ever in a state: #77 in District of Columbia, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #455 | 11 | 1 in 1,808 |
| Mississippi | #547 | 5 | 1 in 2,184 |
| Virginia | #570 | 13 | 1 in 2,772 |
| Florida | #614 | 26 | 1 in 3,306 |
| Michigan | #663 | 12 | 1 in 3,439 |
| Georgia | #688 | 14 | 1 in 3,366 |
| Arizona | #701 | 9 | 1 in 3,341 |
| Illinois | #784 | 13 | 1 in 4,273 |
| North Carolina | #831 | 10 | 1 in 4,538 |
| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,655 |
| Ohio | #1,049 | 8 | 1 in 6,472 |
| New Jersey | #1,148 | 5 | 1 in 7,193 |
| California | #1,270 | 22 | 1 in 8,898 |
| Texas | #1,446 | 16 | 1 in 9,992 |
| New York | #1,460 | 9 | 1 in 9,777 |
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See more about Ayanna
- 187 spots since 2024 (#1,180 → #1,367)
- 211 spots since 2020 (#1,156 → #1,367)
- 292 spots since 2015 (#1,075 → #1,367)
- Biggest jump: 247 spots in 1972 (#753 → #506)
- Biggest drop: 255 spots in 1973 (#506 → #761)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2003 at #362 (847 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1992–2014
- Highest: 1 in 2,157 girls born in 2003 were named Ayanna (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,983 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 38.3% of all girls named Ayanna (6,246) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,547 | #506 (1972) | #873 |
| 1980s | 866 | #1,114 (1981) | #1,519 |
| 1990s | 3,423 | #420 (1999) | #764 |
| 2000s | 6,246 | #362 (2003) | #490 |
| 2010s | 3,058 | #611 (2010) | #932 |
| 2020s | 1,186 | #1,156 (2020) | #1,206 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ayanna in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 7,474 of them was named Ayanna, which outranked 94.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,091Cambria232
- #1,091Devyn232
- #1,091Jovie232
- #1,096Ayanna231
- #1,096Natalee231
- #1,098Cindy230
- #1,098Emmalee230
- #1,098Ila230
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.