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Ayana

American  
[uh-yah-nuh] / əˈyɑ nə /

noun

  1. a first name.


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With Argerie Ayers, whom he married in 1973, the musician had son Mtume and daughter Ayana, who later became his manager.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

Also on deck at Coyote Central stage is New York-based artist Ayana Evans, known for her deeply personal performance art pieces she carries out wearing a tight, neon-colored, leopard-print suit.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023

“Witchcraft,” said Ayana Thompson, a senior in a gray shirt and face mask seated near the wall.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2022

“We shouldn’t be surprised,” said Dr. Ayana Jordan, an associate professor of psychiatry at N.Y.U.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2022

Not only did Ayana work in planetary science, but she also had really cool hair braided in a complicated pattern with beads on the ends.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas