aiyanna, aiyelle or aria

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which of these are you favorite?

Haha! True, I dont. Laughing now!

I've known Ayan/Ayanas. Its an Arabic name, isn't it?

Ianna would be pronounced the same as Aiyanna, I think.

I'm not a fan of highly unusual spellings. I don't really see the point. DP's brother has one for his name and just ends up spelling it to people all the time. Absolutely no one ever thinks "wow, creative and original parents, putting a silent P in Pthomas.". It feels like the baby naming equivalent of that thing where people use all the fonts.

If all you get online about the meaning of a name is that it is "Native American, meaning [something or other]" then that is usually crap. There's no such language as "Native American" -- there are/were around 90 tribes each with their own language, and those languages divide into 25 or 30 language families. Attributions such as "...in Mapuche" or "in Choctaw" are far far more likely to have a basis in reality.

In the case of Aiyanna, it's a variant spelling of Aiyana, which was the name Brian Sykes (author of The Seven Daughters of Eve) invented to refer to a hypothetical common ancestor for one particular haplogroup based on Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analyses. There's no evidence linking it to any actual Native American tribe, and the original woman represented by the name would probably (based on DNA distributions) have lived in Siberia rather than the Americas, with her descendants moving across the Bering Straits land bridge later on. It's not a bad source of a name (although I'd go for the Aiyana spelling), but it's not a Native American name.

Agree that it's definitely not Native American. and that many babynames sites are full of misleading information.

One reputable website says that Ayanna (variations: Aiyana,Aiyana) is possibly East African (possibly Amharic) in origin, and possibly means 'beautiful flower'.

Very definitely, whatever its origins, it has been used in USA and Jamaica for almost 50 years, ever since famous African-American activist Dick Gregory gave the name to his daughter.
See : www.behindthename.com/submit/name/ayanna

Ah ok. .

Aiyanna is actually growing on me.