Origins of kana characters

[eeky]

In Japan, are ordinary people likely to know which Chinese characters each of the kana characters originally developed from? Or would it only be language specialists who know this?

 

[nekojita]

This seems like the sort of trivia that the average person has a vague-ish knowledge of (even I know あ = 安 ) but wouldn't know in detail unless they had use for it - e.g. somebody with an interest in history, old literature, calligraphy, or something along those lines.