Ayana is a name known in several unrelated languages around the world, such as Japanese, Turkic and Oromo. Japanese is a feminine Japanese given name which can be written using different kanji 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. People , Japanese singer-songwriter Ayana Holloway Arce, American physicist Ayana V. Jackson (born 1977), American photographer and filmmaker Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, American marine biologist , Japanese freestyle skier Ayana Rengiil (born 1999), Palauan tennis player , Japanese actress , Japanese-Indonesian singer Ayana Siriwardhana (born 1999), Sri Lankan cricketer , Japanese voice actress , Japanese transgender TV personality Ayana Walker (born 1979), American basketball player Ayana Zholdas (born 2001), Kazakhstani freestyle skier Dawud Ibsa Ayana (born 1952), Ethiopian political figure and militant See also Ayanna, a given name Japanese feminine given names