Iana
Iana was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,794 among girls’ names; 768 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Iana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Iana?
#5,794 among girls’ names, 2025
Iana rose from #7,761 in 2015 to #5,794 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 13.1 per million.
59 babies in 2023, the peak
Iana peaked in 2023, when 59 girls were given it, #2,863 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,794 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,417 | 19.8 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,863 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,822 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,592 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,705 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,678 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,907 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,010 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,379 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,761 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,345 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,334 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,427 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,971 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,685 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,990 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,215 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,147 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,503 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,500 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,196 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,992 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,740 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,250 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,596 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,010 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,016 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,279 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,073 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,028 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,789 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,987 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,198 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,845 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,572 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,279 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,838 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,922 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,975 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,734 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,635 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,342 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,501 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,905 | 5.6 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,769 | 4.1 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,390 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Iana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Iana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Iana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Iana, and how old are they?
An estimated 758 Americans named Iana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 8 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,148 people named Iana (1,145 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 612 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Iana?
Iana is a less common spelling of Iyanna: SSA has recorded 768 Iana and 5,403 Iyanna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 72,434 babies since 1880, Iana is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 699 babies (3.0%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Iana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Iana and names like it
- Compare Iana and IyannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Iana since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Iana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Iana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.