Iyana
Iyana was given to 59 girls in 2025, #2,872 among girls’ names; 5,285 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,230 Americans named Iyana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Iyana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Iyana?
#2,872 among girls’ names, 2025
Iyana fell from #1,976 in 2015 to #2,872 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 56.6 to 36.7 per million.
322 babies in 2002, the peak
Iyana peaked in 2002, when 322 girls were given it, #751 among girls’ names. The 59 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,872 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 94 | #2,058 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 88 | #2,163 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 97 | #2,013 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,372 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,561 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 80 | #2,275 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,259 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 91 | #2,120 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,577 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 101 | #1,976 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 126 | #1,678 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 198 | #1,214 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 152 | #1,486 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 184 | #1,288 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 233 | #1,065 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 219 | #1,155 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 265 | #1,000 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 277 | #970 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 302 | #880 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 289 | #879 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 272 | #895 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 233 | #991 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 322 | #751 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 273 | #838 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 213 | #993 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 176 | #1,125 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 122 | #1,406 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,721 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,211 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,865 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,894 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,144 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,708 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,757 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,651 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,127 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,409 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,475 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,891 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,672 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,566 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,916 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,028 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,501 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,655 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,699 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,105 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,312 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,584 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Iyana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Iyana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Iyana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Iyana, and how old are they?
5,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,285 Americans ever recorded as Iyana. The median Iyana alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 3,813 people named Iyana (3,807 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,777 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 50 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 375 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,220 |
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).
Where are babies named Iyana born?
The states with the most babies named Iyana are California, Texas and Florida, with 78% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,601 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,077 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,287 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,491 | 1.1× |
Where Iyana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Iyana is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1976 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Iyana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 64,200 babies since 1880, Iyana is the fourth most given (8.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 693 babies (8.5%), 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 Iyana
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 Iyana and names like it
- Compare Iyana and InaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIyana peaked in 2002.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Iyana since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Iyana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Iyana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.