Meaning not yet researched.
Ayana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 200 in 2025. Its best rank was #654 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #654 in 2001; #1,161 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ayana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,161 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #654.
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Ayana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 200 girls in 2025. Peak: #654 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 405 (2006).
In 2025, 200 US girls were named Ayana, making it the 1,161st most common girls’ name of the year, down 56 places from #1,105 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 221 girls named Ayana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #654, reached in 2001. The most girls given the name in a single year was 405, in 2006. For comparison, it was #1,040 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ayana in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 12,096 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,678 babies named Ayana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,258 US girls were named Ayana; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 278. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,036 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ayana ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #716 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Anna (917,615 babies since 1880), Ana (111,960 babies since 1880), Anaya (17,997 babies since 1880) and Ayanna (16,326 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aiyanah, Aiyona and Aayanah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aiyanah (372), Aiyona (58), Aayanah (10), Aaiyana (10), Ayonah (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ayana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 23 | #716 | #711 |
| New York | 20 | #795 | #713 |
| Michigan | 9 | #795 | #916 |
| Arizona | 7 | #832 | #790 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #895 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,002 | #1,073 |
| Texas | 24 | #1,127 | #992 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,134 | #863 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,147 | #946 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,206 | #861 |
| California | 20 | #1,246 | #841 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,257 | #1,442 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,299 | #1,177 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,478 | #1,112 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 200 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 2024 | 221 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 2023 | 249 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 2022 | 235 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 2021 | 221 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 2020 | 182 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 2019 | 202 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 2018 | 245 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 2017 | 225 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 2016 | 278 | #968 | — | — |
| 2015 | 256 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 2014 | 251 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 2013 | 261 | #964 | — | — |
| 2012 | 304 | #876 | — | — |
| 2011 | 298 | #877 | — | — |
| 2010 | 351 | #783 | — | — |
| 2009 | 360 | #785 | — | — |
| 2008 | 350 | #818 | — | — |
| 2007 | 359 | #800 | — | — |
| 2006 | 405 | #700 | — | — |
| 2005 | 383 | #713 | — | — |
| 2004 | 364 | #730 | — | — |
| 2003 | 369 | #707 | — | — |
| 2002 | 367 | #683 | — | — |
| 2001 | 385 | #654 | — | — |
| 2000 | 336 | #697 | — | — |
| 1999 | 298 | #750 | — | — |
| 1998 | 305 | #722 | — | — |
| 1997 | 251 | #824 | — | — |
| 1996 | 247 | #820 | — | — |
| 1995 | 278 | #738 | — | — |
| 1994 | 276 | #753 | — | — |
| 1993 | 265 | #779 | — | — |
| 1992 | 211 | #921 | — | — |
| 1991 | 208 | #924 | — | — |
| 1990 | 172 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1989 | 146 | #1,132 | 5 | #8,004 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 1987 | 74 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1986 | 68 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 1984 | 69 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1983 | 91 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1982 | 92 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 1981 | 110 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1980 | 118 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1979 | 107 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1978 | 116 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1977 | 139 | #983 | — | — |
| 1976 | 187 | #766 | — | — |
| 1975 | 147 | #897 | — | — |
| 1974 | 102 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 1973 | 89 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1972 | 91 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,379 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,125 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).