Ayana is a name known in several unrelated languages around the world, including

Amharic Amharic is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amhara people, and also serves as a lingua franca for all other metropolitan populati ...

Hebrew Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

Kikongo Kongo or Kikongo is one of the Bantu languages spoken by the Kongo people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Angola. It is a tonal language. The vast majority of present-day speakers li ...

Oromo Oromo may refer to: * Oromo people, an ethnic group of Ethiopia and Kenya * Oromo language, an Afroasiatic language See also * *Orma (clan), Oromo tribe *Oromia Oromia (, ) is a Regions of Ethiopia, regional state in Ethiopia and the homelan ...

, and Turkic.

Amharic

In Ethiopian culture, the name Ayana means ''beautiful flower'' in Amharic.

Hebrew

The Hebrew name Ayana is a variant of Maayan, meaning ''fountain'' or ''

spring Spring(s) may refer to: Common uses * Spring (season), a season of the year * Spring (device), a mechanical device that stores energy * Spring (hydrology), a natural source of water * Spring (mathematics), a geometric surface in the shape of a he ...

''.

Japanese

is a feminine Japanese given name which can be written using different

kanji are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are ...

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 The Kongo people (also , singular: or ''M'kongo; , , singular: '') are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined as the speakers of Kikongo. Subgroups include the Beembe, Bwende, Vili, Sundi, Yombe, Dondo, Lari, and others. They have li ...

name that means "they protected" or "they supported" in the Kongo language. Those who bear the name can be found in northwest

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, southwest

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, and among the

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in the

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People

* , Japanese singer-songwriter *

Ayana Akli Ayana Akli (born July 6, 2001) is an American professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of No. 313 in singles, achieved on July 14, 2025, and No. 258 in doubles, achieved on July 14, 2025. She played collegiate tennis at the Univer ...

(born 2001), American tennis player * Ayana Holloway Arce, American physicist *

Ayana V. Jackson Ayana V. Jackson (born May 14, 1977) is an American photographer and filmmaker. Born in Livingston, New Jersey. She is best known for her focus on Contemporary Africa and the African Diaspora, most notably the series ''African by Legacy, Mexican b ...

(born 1977), American photographer and filmmaker *

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (born ) is a marine biologist, policy expert, and Nature conservation, conservation strategist. She is the co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for ocean-climate policy in coastal cities, and the Roux Distinguishe ...

, American marine biologist * Ayana Jordan, American addiction psychiatrist * , Japanese freestyle skier * , Japanese actress * , Japanese-Indonesian singer *

Ayana Siriwardhana Ayana Siriwardhana (born 8 April 1999) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Moors Sports Club in the 2018–19 SLC Twenty20 Tournament on 15 February 2019. He made his List A debut for Moors Sports Club in the 2018–19 Pre ...

(born 1999), Sri Lankan cricketer * , Japanese voice actress * , Japanese transgender TV personality * Ayana Walker (born 1979), American basketball player * Ayana Zholdas (born 2001), Kazakhstani freestyle skier *

Dawud Ibsa Ayana Dawud Ibsaa Ayana (born 1952) is an Ethiopian politician who is the chairman of the Oromo Liberation Front, an Ethiopian political party established in 1973. Education Ayana attended the Haile Selassie I University in 1970-1971, and participate ...

(born 1952), Ethiopian political figure and militant

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