Ianna
Ianna was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,303 among girls’ names; 1,121 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Ianna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ianna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ianna?
#5,303 among girls’ names, 2025
Ianna rose from #5,724 in 2015 to #5,303 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.9 to 14.9 per million.
59 babies in 2011, the peak
Ianna peaked in 2011, when 59 girls were given it, #2,925 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,303 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,418 | 19.8 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,916 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,307 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,888 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,371 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,583 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,105 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,230 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,031 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,724 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,041 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,283 | 27.9 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,334 | 27.8 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,925 | 33.5 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,845 | 22.5 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,380 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,887 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,264 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,947 | 30.5 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,098 | 27.6 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,143 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,825 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,424 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,048 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,848 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,233 | 15.2 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,446 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,891 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,869 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,899 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,103 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,698 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,295 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,112 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,090 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,144 | 6.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,570 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,663 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,004 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,461 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ianna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ianna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ianna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ianna, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,121 Americans ever recorded as Ianna. The median Ianna alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 874 people named Ianna (874 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 966 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 105 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 628 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 371 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Ianna?
Ianna is a less common spelling of Iyanna: SSA has recorded 1,121 Ianna and 5,403 Iyanna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 61,339 babies since 1880, Ianna is the sixth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 363 babies (6.6%), the fifth 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 Ianna
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 Ianna and names like it
- Compare Ianna and IyannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sIanna peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ianna since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Ianna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ianna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.