Aiyana
Aiyana was given to 184 girls in 2025, #1,225 among girls’ names; 9,891 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,800 Americans named Aiyana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aiyana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aiyana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aiyana is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aiyana?
#1,225 among girls’ names, 2025
Aiyana fell from #833 in 2015 to #1,225 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.19 to 0.11 per 1,000.
544 babies in 2010, the peak
Aiyana peaked in 2010, when 544 girls were given it, #539 among girls’ names. The 184 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 184 | #1,225 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 205 | #1,169 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 232 | #1,070 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 227 | #1,098 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 267 | #972 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 231 | #1,070 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 198 | #1,186 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 267 | #987 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 322 | #845 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 360 | #791 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 337 | #833 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 327 | #844 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 374 | #730 | 0.21 |
| 2012 | 426 | #663 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 427 | #663 | 0.24 |
| 2010 | 544 | #539 | 0.31 |
| 2009 | 495 | #609 | 0.27 |
| 2008 | 525 | #594 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 468 | #635 | 0.24 |
| 2006 | 380 | #734 | 0.20 |
| 2005 | 365 | #739 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 400 | #688 | 0.22 |
| 2003 | 349 | #732 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 299 | #787 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 293 | #804 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 284 | #801 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 241 | #885 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 150 | #1,217 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 125 | #1,366 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 109 | #1,489 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 85 | #1,712 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 69 | #2,022 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,595 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,576 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,647 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,692 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,542 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,116 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,786 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,533 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,962 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,544 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,686 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,945 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,738 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,612 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,334 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,680 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,654 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,154 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #5,986 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aiyana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aiyana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aiyana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aiyana, and how old are they?
9,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,891 Americans ever recorded as Aiyana. The median Aiyana alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 6,820 people named Aiyana (6,806 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,531 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 93 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 480 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,710 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,510 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aiyana born?
The states with the most babies named Aiyana are California, Texas and New York, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 25 | #1,053 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 25 | #1,088 | 0.7× |
| New York | 11 | #1,238 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,330 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 9 | #679 | 1.5× |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #483 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 7 | #941 | 0.9× |
| Colorado | 7 | #706 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,238 | 0.7× |
| Washington | 6 | #918 | 1.1× |
Where Aiyana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aiyana is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1975 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aiyana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,684 babies since 1880, Aiyana is the third most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 184 of their 779 babies (24%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aiyana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aiyana and names like it
- Compare Aiyana and AyannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAiyana peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aiyana since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Aiyana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Aiyana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aiyana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.