Ayana

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ayana: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ayana: Recorded every year since 1997, it reached #402 in 2019, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#402highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
1998	#3142
1999	#2444
2000	#2416
2001	#2466
2002	#2105
2003	#2191
2004	#2802
2005	#1796
2006	#1585
2007	#2085
2008	#1135
2009	#897
2010	#730
2011	#575
2012	#690
2013	#466
2014	#486
2015	#461
2016	#516
2017	#507
2018	#540
2019	#402
2020	#463
2021	#581
2022	#486
2023	#622
2024	#510

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #510 among girls in England and Wales, #541 among girls in Scotland, #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3174 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #402 among girls in England and Wales, in 2019 (recorded 1997–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Ayana appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 1,324 births with the name.

Ayana across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ayana's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3174 (1997)	#402 (2019)	#510 (2024)	28 of 28	1,324 (1997–2024)	104 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#750 (2016)	#608 (2025)	#608 (2025)	4 of 10	17 (2016–2025)	5 (2024)

Ayana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ayana in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	14	3 of 10	5
2000s	135	10 of 10	14
2010sbusiest	800	10 of 10	80
2020s	375	5 of 10	75

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 80 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births rose by 30, from 60 to 90.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ayana appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #402 in England and Wales in 2019.

Ayana's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#510	77	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#622	60	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#486	84	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#581	67	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#463	87	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#402	104	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#540	77	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#507	85	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#516	83	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#461	94	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#486	87	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#466	90	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#690	60	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#575	70	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#730	50	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#897	37	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1135	26	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2085	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1585	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2191	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #402, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 104 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 27 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Ayala · #2090, 23y
Ayan · #193, 48y
Ayanah · #1785, 14y
Ayanna · #876, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Codey · #403, 28y
Edan · #403, 29y
Gideon · #403, 30y
Mani · #403, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Gus · #402, 30y
Sheldon · #402, 29y
Codey · #403, 28y
Edan · #403, 29y

Ayana was ranked #402 in England and Wales · Girls in 2019. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ayana and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ayana without appearing here.

Ayana moved ahead of

George Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2802 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1135 and #5545.
Finley Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2085 and #1965 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1135 and #3860.
Francis Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3174 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1796 and #3970.
Debra Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2466 and #2226 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2105 and #4137.

Moved ahead of Ayana

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #575 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #690 and #284.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #402 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #463 and #460.
Blake Compare
In 2019 they stood at #402 and #432 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #463 and #463.

Moved the opposite way to Ayana

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayana went from #3174 to #510 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayana went from #3174 to #510 while Aimee went from #61 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayana went from #3174 to #510 while Aisling went from #496 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayana went from #3174 to #510 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Ayana

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayana went from #3174 to #510 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayana went from #3174 to #510 and Alma from #2411 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayana went from #3174 to #510 and Alyssa from #506 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayana went from #3174 to #510 and Amalie from #3824 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #402 in England and Wales in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ayana

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Popularity journey

Ayana across 2 official records

Ayana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Ayana across 2 official records

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