Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ayano comes from Japanese, and ultimately from Japanese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ayano through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 126
- 0 boys · 126 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 429 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ayano’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Ayano is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 彩乃. In Japanese usage, Ayano is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 文乃. In Japanese usage, Ayano is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 絢乃.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 6
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Ayano
- Ayano SatoJapanese speed skaterborn 1996
- Ayano Ōmotomember of the Japanese group Perfumeborn 1988
- Ayano EgamiOlympic synchronized swimmerborn 1980
- Ayano ShibukiJapanese volleyball playerborn 1941
- Ayano ShimizuJapanese tennis playerborn 1998
- Ayano TsujiJapanese singer-songwriterborn 1978
- Ayano YamamotoJapanese actress, voice actress and idolborn 1986
- Ayano DozonoJapanese association football playerborn 1990
- Ayano YamaneJapanese manga artistborn 1977
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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