Ayana (name)

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.

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

See also

• Ayanna, a given name

References

1. Ayana Taketatsu
2. Almaz Ayana
3. Ayana (disambiguation)
4. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
5. Charlotte Ayanna
6. Aya (given name)
7. Aya
8. Ayanna
9. Cool Devices
10. Ayana V. Jackson
11. Ayana (short story)
12. Ayana Gray
13. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
14. Jordan (name)
15. Nirayana system
16. List of one-word stage names
17. List of Indian state and union territory name etymologies
18. World Athlete of the Year
19. The Voice of the Philippines season 1
20. Ayana Russell