Ayaka

Ayaka can be written with two or three kanji. An example is 杏也加 (Ayaka) derived from 杏 (a, Nanori Reading) meaning "apricot" combined with 也 (ya, Kan-On Reading) meaning "to be, also" and 加 (ka, Kan-On Reading) meaning "addition, add, increase".

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Other possible combinations are:

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彩華, "colorful, flower"
彩夏, "colorful, summer"
彩霞, "colorful, mist"
彩香, "colorful, scent"
彩風, "colorful, wind"
綾花, "design, flower"
綾香, "design, scent"
綾風, "design, wind"
綾夏, "design, summer"
絢花, "kimono design, flower"
絢香, "kimono design, scent"
彩花, "colorful flower".

肖 means "mimic".

The name Ayaka depends on how they are written either in kanji or hiragana. There are more than 10 ways to spell the name Ayaka.

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Famous AYAKAs:
Ayaka(singer-songwriter).

There are more variations in writing, 綾 (aya - figure, design, twill weave), 香　or 薫　 (ka - to smell sweet, to be fragrant).

See the comments on "Aya" for more possibilities for meanings. As for the "ka" part, it could be "beautiful" or "song" or "fragrance".

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If it was pronounced Ayaku, it would be spelled that way. Japanese is very phonetic and it's said the way it's spelled, consistently (like Spanish).

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Also, the Japanese language doesn't have the syllable "ye", so they'd have to do some fancy work with the characters/syllabary and it would be spelled differently (Aieka) because the "ye" sound when they're pulling it from other langauges (since it doesn't normally come up in Japanese words) is written "ie".