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Ayane

#12,087 in 2025Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Ayane has been given to 296 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #12,087 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Ayane, 2025

1 in 474,000

Ayane over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ayane: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Ayane means

Ayane is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include colour, design, brilliant fabric design, kimono design, sound.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ayane is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ä.jä.ne̞/ for Ayane.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 296 girls were recorded with the name Ayane between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2007; its best national rank was #5,732 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,686 in 2020 to #12,087 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,669 in 2015 to #12,087 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ayane?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,087
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ayane sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ayane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ayanes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ayane was born before 2010 — so the typical Ayane is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
296
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Choose a decade

2010s — 45.6% of all recorded uses (135).

Is Ayane rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,599
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,418
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.2%
Peak was 2007 (24)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,732
2007

Spellings of Ayane

Ayane is not the most common spelling — Diane is, with 31.0% against Ayane's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ayane is used

Across 1910–2025, Ayane was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,178,904 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ayane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ayane around the world

Where Ayane ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2015
    #4,736
    in 2015
  • France
    1992–2025
    #6,862
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ayane by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,087
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,599
Best rank ever
#5,732
2007
Peak year
2007
24 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
296
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Ayane

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ayane

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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