Ayana
#1,160 for girls in 2025, 200 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #7,905
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 385 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,091since 1970
Ayana over time
Rank among girls' names. Ayana has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,160 | 200 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,105 | 221 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,016 | 249 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,069 | 235 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,116 | 221 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,246 | 182 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,175 | 202 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,048 | 245 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,120 | 225 | — | |
| 2016 | #967 | 278 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,038 | 256 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,032 | 251 | — | |
| 2013 | #964 | 261 | — | |
| 2012 | #876 | 304 | — | |
| 2011 | #875 | 298 | — | |
| 2010 | #783 | 351 | — | |
| 2009 | #784 | 360 | — | |
| 2008 | #818 | 350 | — | |
| 2007 | #800 | 359 | — | |
| 2006 | #700 | 405 | — | |
| 2005 | #713 | 383 | — | |
| 2004 | #730 | 364 | — | |
| 2003 | #707 | 369 | — | |
| 2002 | #683 | 367 | — | |
| 2001 | #654 | 385 | — | |
| 2000 | #697 | 336 | — | |
| 1999 | #750 | 298 | — | |
| 1998 | #722 | 305 | — | |
| 1997 | #824 | 251 | — | |
| 1996 | #820 | 247 | — | |
| 1995 | #738 | 278 | — | |
| 1994 | #751 | 276 | — | |
| 1993 | #779 | 265 | — | |
| 1992 | #921 | 211 | — | |
| 1991 | #923 | 208 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,042 | 172 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,132 | 146 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #1,636 | 79 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,647 | 74 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,717 | 68 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,856 | 60 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,604 | 69 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,319 | 91 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,345 | 92 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,193 | 110 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,150 | 118 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,210 | 107 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,117 | 116 | — | |
| 1977 | #983 | 139 | — | |
| 1976 | #766 | 187 | — | |
| 1975 | #896 | 147 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,133 | 102 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,200 | 89 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,181 | 91 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,375 | 32 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ayana! It came in at #7,070, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
See more about Ayana
- 55 spots since 2024 (#1,105 → #1,160)
- 86 spots since 2020 (#1,246 → #1,160)
- 122 spots since 2015 (#1,038 → #1,160)
- Biggest jump: 237 spots in 1975 (#1,133 → #896)
- Biggest drop: 217 spots in 1977 (#766 → #983)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2001 at #654 (385 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1991–2013
- Highest: 1 in 4,677 girls born in 2001 were named Ayana (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,036 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 30.4% of all girls named Ayana (3,678) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,016 | #766 (1976) | #1,793 |
| 1980s | 907 | #1,132 (1989) | #1,460 |
| 1990s | 2,511 | #722 (1998) | #827 |
| 2000s | 3,678 | #654 (2001) | #729 |
| 2010s | 2,671 | #783 (2010) | #988 |
| 2020s | 1,308 | #1,016 (2023) | #1,119 |
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.
Ayana in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 12,627 of them was named Ayana, which outranked 92.2% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,123Madalyn147
- #1,123Nakita147
- #1,123Nataly147
- #1,132Ayana146
- #1,132Francisca146
- #1,132Giovanna146
- #1,132Kailee146
- #1,137Brielle145
- #1,137Carli145
- #1,137Corrie145
Tied with 4 names at #1,132; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 400,186 of them was named Ayana, which outranked 14.4% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,327 names at #7,905; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.