Ayanna

Meaning: Path
Origin: Sanskrit — Variant of Ayana

Meaning: Beautiful flower
Origin: Amharic — Variant of Ayana

Girl's name · #1368 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave

Popularity over time

Ayanna's best rank, #362, came in 2003; it has settled back to #1368 today. Roughly 16,000 girls have been named Ayanna since 1971.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 17 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#822 in France (2025) · #1,023 in Belgium (2025) · #1,144 in Ecuador (2025) · #1,429 in Canada (2025) · #1,470 in Switzerland (2025) · #1,719 in England & Wales (2025) · #2,203 in Sweden (2025) · #898 in Ireland (2024) · #2,103 in Austria (2020).

Famous Ayannas

Ayanna Pressley — American politician (born 1974)
Ayanna Howard — American roboticist (born 1972)
Ayanna Witter-Johnson — English composer, singer-songwriter, pianist and cellist (born 1985)
Ayanna Williams — American woman and nail artist
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo — Trinidadian writer (born 1980)

What Ayannas become

Among 37 notable people named Ayanna:

Sports figures appear 2.29× more often than among typical names — e.g. Ayanna Hutchinson, Trinidadian athletics competitor (born 1978).

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variants Ayana (#1161), Aiyana (#1225), and Aiyanna (#2299), Ayanna would rank around #482 with about 620 births last year — the newborns split about 32/29/26/13 across Ayana, Aiyana, Ayanna, and Aiyanna.

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