How rare is the name Ayanna?

12,867 people in the United States have the first name Ayanna, about 1 in 23,473. It ranks #2,093 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

AYANNA

#2,093

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
12,867
About
1 in 23,473
This common or more
78.5%
Who bears it

Of the 12,867 people named Ayanna, 69.9% reported their origin as Black, 14.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.2% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Ayanna peaked in 2003, when 847 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19712025
Peak year
2003
Births that year
847
In 2025*
161 ▼81%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 16,326 babies have been given the name since 1971. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Ayanna by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #907. The largest share of babies named Ayanna, 56.9%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#1,5141,547
1980s#2,374866
1990s#1,2043,423
2000s#9076,246
2010s#1,6513,058
2020s#2,2571,186
Generation X 1965–8010.1%
Millennials 1981–9614.9%
Generation Z 1997–1256.9%
2013 and later18.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Ayanna is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ayanna has been most common in District of Columbia (2.6×), Maryland (2.6×), and Georgia (2.2×), and least common in Oklahoma (0.24×).

14,104 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Ayanna

#2,091 Devyn · 12,889#2,092 Bailee · 12,886#2,094 Carmelo · 12,863#2,094 Mitch · 12,863

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Ayanna, most common first.

#2,546 Ayana · 9,522#13,890 Ayonna · 859#19,654 Ayannah · 535#32,182 Ayianna · 263

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