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The first name 
Aiyana

Aiyana is a female first name.

Aiyana is a common name for girls!

The name Aiyana isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Aiyana ranks 834. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Aiyana. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Aiyana.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Aiyana

What does the name 
Aiyana mean?

The name Aiyana is a modern variant of Ayanna, which has two different origins and meanings. In Amharic, a language mainly spoken in Ethiopia, it possibly means ‘flower’, in Sanskrit, it stands for ‘silent’.

Aiyana was created in... the 1970s and was quite popular around 2010.

Aiyana -
keeping with the times

Aiyana is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Aiyana cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #513 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2010. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Aiyana, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Aiyana seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Aiyana was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Aiyana in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

220 babies were named Aiyana in 2022 - that's 1 in 673,781 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Aiyana ranked 1,013 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.

Aiyana has 6 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.

With six letters, the name Aiyana is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.

Other names with 
A, i, y, a, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Aiyana – A, i, y, a, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Aaniya or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Aiyana

If your name is Aiyana and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Aiyana

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Aiyana, you can simply say:

Apple

Igloo

Yoyo

Apple

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Aiyana is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Aiyana in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Aiyana

Aiyana

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Aiyana

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Aiyana is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
I
Y
A
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Aiyana

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

A
I
Y
A
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Aiyana sounds like this: