Ayana (name)

Ayana
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Japanese, Kikongo, Oromo, Turkic
Meaning	Different meanings by culture

Last updated April 23, 2024

Ayana is a name known in several unrelated languages around the world, such as Japanese, Kikongo, Oromo, and Turkic.

Japanese

Ayana (あやな, アヤナ) is a feminine Japanese given name which can be written using different kanji with different meanings:

彩菜, "colorful, greens"
彩那, "colorful, what"
彩名, "colorful, name"
綾奈, "design, what"
朱菜, "vermilion, greens"

The name can also be written in either hiragana or katakana.

Kikongo

Ayana (Ah-yah-nah or Ay-yah-nah) is a unisex Bakongo name that means "they protected" or "they supported" in the Kongo language. Those who bear the name can be found in northwest Angola, southwest Democratic Republic of Congo, and among the African diaspora in the Americas.^[1]

People

Ayana (彩菜), Japanese singer-songwriter
Ayana Holloway Arce, American physicist
Ayana V. Jackson (born 1977), American photographer and filmmaker
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, American marine biologist
Ayana Jordan, American addiction psychiatrist
Ayana Onozuka (彩那, born 1988), Japanese freestyle skier
Ayana Sakai (彩名, born 1985), Japanese actress
Ayana Shahab (アヤナ, born 1997), Japanese-Indonesian singer
Ayana Siriwardhana (born 1999), Sri Lankan cricketer
Ayana Taketatsu (彩奈, born 1989), Japanese voice actress
Ayana Tsubaki (彩菜, born 1984), Japanese transgender TV personality
Ayana Walker (born 1979), American basketball player
Ayana Zholdas (born 2001), Kazakhstani freestyle skier
Dawud Ibsa Ayana (born 1952), Ethiopian political figure and militant

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References

↑ Kandimba, Aristóteles (2023). The Book of Names from Angola: A collection of 1,000 Angolan names of Bantu Origins. Ntu&Eu Society. p. 31. ISBN 979-8857554524.

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[1] Kandimba, Aristóteles (2023). The Book of Names from Angola: A collection of 1,000 Angolan names of Bantu Origins. Ntu&Eu Society. p. 31. ISBN 979-8857554524.

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