| [ syll. a-yan-na, ay-a-nna ] The girl name Ayanna is pronounced -ahN-ah KEY. Ayanna's language of origin is Somali and it is predominantly used in English. Ayanna is a form of Ayana (English and Somali). Ayanna is a rather popular baby girl name. The name's popularity has been rising since the 1990s. At the modest peak of its usage in 2003, 0.042% of baby girls were named Ayanna. It had a ranking of #361 then. In 2007, it ranked at #531 with a usage of 0.028%, and it was the most popular out of all girl names in its family. Ayanna was 62% more widely used than the subsequent ranked name, Ayana (English and Somali), in 2007. Baby names that sound like Ayanna include Aine (Irish), Aman (Arabic), Ami (English), Amie (English), Ammie (English), Amye (English), Ana (Portuguese and Spanish), Anais (French), Anaïs (French), Anna (Hebrew, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Scandinavian, and Slavic), Annah (English), Annie (English), Anny (Polish), Anu (Estonian and Finnish), Iman (Arabic), Ona (Lithuanian), Aamina (Arabic), Ainhoa (Basque and Spanish), Aiyana (English), Allonia (English), Amaia (Basque and Spanish), Amani (Arabic), Amaya (Basque), Ameena (Arabic), Amiee (English), Amina (Arabic), Aminah (Arabic), Amya (English), Anahi (Spanish), Ane (Scandinavian), Anina (Czech and Italian), Aniya (English), Aniyah (English), Ann (English), Anne (English, French, and German), Anniina (Finnish), Annina (German), Aune (Finnish), Imani (English), Ioana (Romanian and Slavic), Iona (English and Scottish), Unn (Scandinavian), Henoheno (Hawaiian), and Ioanna (Greek). KEY: approx pronunciation for Ayanna: AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"
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