Ayana is a name known in several unrelated languages around the world, such as
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, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon and Angola. It is a tonal language. It was spoken by many of those who were taken from th ...
,
Oromo, and
Turkic.
Japanese
is a feminine Japanese given name which can be written using different
kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and 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 ...
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 ( kg, Bisi Kongo, , singular: ; also , 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 lived ...
name that means "they protected" or "they supported" in the Kongo language. Those who bear the name can be found in northwest
Angola
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, southwest
Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
, and among the
African diaspora
The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from native Africans or people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the West and Central Africans who were e ...
in the
Americas
The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World.
Along with th ...
.
People
* , Japanese singer-songwriter
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Ayana Holloway Arce
Ayana Holloway Arce is a professor of physics at Duke University. She works on particle physics, using data from the Large Hadron Collider to understand phenomena beyond the Standard Model.
Early life and education
Arce was born in Lansing, Mi ...
, American physicist
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Ayana V. Jackson (born 1977), American photographer and filmmaker
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, and conservation strategist. She is the founder and president of Ocean Collectiv, a consulting firm that helps find ocean "conservation solutions grounded in social justice", and the ...
, American marine biologist
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Ayana Jordan, American addiction psychiatrist
* , Japanese freestyle skier
* , Japanese actress
* , Japanese-Indonesian singer
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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 ...
(born 1999), Sri Lankan cricketer
* , Japanese voice actress
* , Japanese transgender TV personality
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Ayana Walker
Ayana D'Nay Walker (born September 10, 1979) is an American former women's basketball player. She played for the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball team from 1998 to 2002. Walker was a member of gold medal-winning USA Basketball Women's Nat ...
(born 1979), American basketball player
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Ayana Zholdas (born 2001), Kazakhstani freestyle skier
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Dawud Ibsa Ayana (born 1952), Ethiopian political figure and militant
See also
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Ayanna, a given name
References
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Japanese feminine given names
Feminine given names