Comments for the name Aya

Famous bearer is Aya Matsuura, a Japanese teen idol.

Aya Mikage is the main character of Watase Yu's manga 'Ayashi no Ceres'.

A character from the anime "Kodocha" is called Aya.

A famous bearer of the name Aya is Aya Ishiguro, former member of Hello! Project group Morning Musume.

In Naruto, during the episode with Sakura and Ino's batle during the preliminaries of the Chuunin exams, during one of the flahsbacks there was a girl named Aya who picked on Sakura.

Aya's the name of the protaganist of Square-Enix's PS1 game, Parasite Eve.

Aya is the main character of Scott Westerfeld's soon-to-be-released book 'Extras', a companion to his 'Uglies' trilogy.

In the manga Kare Kano, there is a girl named Aya who is skilled at sewing.

AYA is the stage name of the guitarist from Mix speaker's inc. (known as Even pheonix, Fire Kyoncie, etc.) and previously Psycho le Cemu.

Aya Hirano who plays the voice or Haruhi in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is a famous bearer.

Aya Fuse is the main character in the book Extras by Scott Westerfeld.

Aya Ueto is a famous Japanese actress.

Aya is a character in the Touhou project.

Aya is a character in the whimsical movie Absurdistan. I like it, but it kind of reminds me of the sound Hi-AH that appears in karate movies.

There is a beautiful song by blues-garage band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC) called Aya.

Also, in the House of Night books, the main character's Native American heritage is often cited and she is sometimes referred to as A-ya, which means (if I remember correctly) "Me" in the language of the tribe she's from.