# Ayana (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ayana/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 12,096 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 12,091 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,405, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 298 | 877 |
| 2012 | 304 | 876 |
| 2013 | 261 | 964 |
| 2014 | 251 | 1,032 |
| 2015 | 256 | 1,040 |
| 2016 | 278 | 968 |
| 2017 | 225 | 1,121 |
| 2018 | 245 | 1,049 |
| 2019 | 202 | 1,175 |
| 2020 | 182 | 1,248 |
| 2021 | 221 | 1,116 |
| 2022 | 235 | 1,070 |
| 2023 | 249 | 1,016 |
| 2024 | 221 | 1,105 |
| 2025 | 200 | 1,161 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | 8,004 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 70 | 575 |
| 2012 | 60 | 690 |
| 2013 | 90 | 466 |
| 2014 | 87 | 486 |
| 2015 | 94 | 461 |
| 2016 | 83 | 516 |
| 2017 | 85 | 507 |
| 2018 | 77 | 540 |
| 2019 | 104 | 402 |
| 2020 | 87 | 463 |
| 2021 | 67 | 581 |
| 2022 | 84 | 486 |
| 2023 | 60 | 622 |
| 2024 | 77 | 510 |
| 2025 | 81 | 490 |

## People named Ayana

- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, American marine biologist and policy expert

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.