Ayaana
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- eye-AH-na
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,076 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Ayaana is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 2,076th for girls in the UK (14 babies) and 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
Where does Ayaana come from?
Feminine form of Ayaan
Is Ayaana a girl's or a boy's name?
Ayaana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the UK and 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ayaana in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,076th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 20,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fast down 68% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the UK were named Ayaana, making it the 2,076th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,121st. Its busiest year was 2017, with 55 girls.
Half of all the girls named Ayaana in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 125 girls in the UK were given Ayaana or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #382, up from #2,076 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,006th in England and Wales.
Ayaana in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #2,076 |
| 2024 | 9 | #2,832 |
| 2023 | 15 | #1,955 |
| 2022 | 27 | #1,283 |
| 2021 | 24 | #1,393 |
| 2020 | 32 | #1,121 |
| 2019 | 32 | #1,129 |
| 2018 | 54 | #786 |
| 2017 | 55 | #784 |
| 2016 | 41 | #956 |
| 2015 | 37 | #1,040 |
| 2014 | 36 | #1,053 |
| 2013 | 42 | #949 |
| 2012 | 30 | #1,205 |
| 2011 | 17 | #1,755 |
| 2010 | 11 | #2,379 |
| 2009 | 8 | #2,909 |
| 2008 | 7 | #3,203 |
| 2007 | 8 | #2,790 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
How popular is Ayaana in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Ayaana, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Ayaana in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 469 girls in the US were given Ayaana or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #623, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Ayaana in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,657 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,898 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,450 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
Names like Ayaana
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Abeeha, Safa, Amira, Ayra, Khadija, Hafsa, Anaya, Aaliyah, Amaya, Aiza, Ayah, Liyana
Other spellings of Ayaana
Names related to Ayaana
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ayaana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ayaana, updated 20 October 2026.